I'm using Google Charts in order to make a nice columns chart, its actually a pretty easy task but I got stuck at the following point: I gotta format the values showed at the vertical axis this way -> "R$ 1.000,00" (for Brazilian currency), I then found at [googles documentation page about columns charts](http://code.google.com/intl/pt-BR/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/columnchart.html#Configuration_Options) that its possible to supply an ICU expression to format the number the way I want, including currency formatting.

```
--------------------------------| ICU SYNTAX BELOW |
vAxis: {title: 'VALUES', format: 'R\u00A4 #.###0,00'}

```

This was the closest I could get, but this expression gives me:

```
1000 -> R$ 1000.00 when it should be R$ 1.000,00

```

So my two problems are:

1) Cant get the thousand separator to show
2) Cant replace thousand separator by "." and decimal separator by ","

googled the web and found lots of stuff regarding ICU itself, describing how to achieve it by calling some methods from ICU C++ lib, but its obviously not available when dealing w/ google charts.