Commas are punctuation too... so what are you proposing?

Could use a space or an underscore:

100 000

100_000

Now you have two problems.

I got 99.0 problems and separators ain't one

How about U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE?

1 000 (Narrow nbsp)

1 000 (Regular nbsp)

(Assuming HN even allows it.)

Interesting! Do you know of any countries that use the underscore? I believe I've seen France(...?) use spaces as a separator, but I've never come across the underscore.

Personally I would like some means of breaking up units of triplets that could be used universally. It's frustrating that there isn't a standard across the globe for such crucial means of expression. It wasn't until fairly recently that I learned that the comma wasn't the universal standard.

I am not aware of any country using the underscore to separate multiple of thousands, I just thought of it because it can be used for that purpose in some programming languages. Ans if it's true that no country is using it, then I guess it could be used as a 'neutral' way of doing it.

why not '

Spaces cause ambiguity with separate values like 123 456. Underscores are ambiguous with missing values due to the common use of a line segment to indicate where to fill out form values in addition to the same separate values issue as spaces.

At a guess

100000

My personal preference would be: 100000 (monetary symbol), but, I also understand that others might prefer the symbol before the numeric (i.e. $100000), even though you would not say "Dollars one hundred thousand" in English.

The closest you get to an international standard (that not many use is a statement from the International Bureau of Weights and Measures recommending (ideally thin) spaces (so "10 000")