Format a cell / british pound

Hello Community,
I'm using Numbers '09 V2.3 (german) and I'm writing an invoice in £ to a british company. I can set the currency to Sterling, but I can't force the numbers to be written the british way. In german writing you use only a "," where in british the "." is used. The british "," for displaying the thousands doesn't excist in german writing. (Do you get what I mean??)
So I want to make a default format for a cell in british pounds with british writing (e.g.: £1,000.00) that can be used with a german Numbers.
Switching the keyboard language to English doesn't help.
Anybody an idea??
Thanks in advance,
musicus

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