Which brings us back to Michael's earlier recommendation that you
don't hard-code any particular national convention regarding how
phone numbers should be formatted.
Actually, I think it is as unhelpful to insist that all users treat
all applications as if they were in use world wide as to insist that
all users use a local convention. For example, while I applaud XML's
accommodation of names in virtually all languages that doesn't mean
that an application written for my neighborhood association needs to
accommodate street names in Japanese - we don't have any and we know
we won't have any.
Based on the information we have seen from this user, a local
convention for formatting phone numbers may well meet the need.
Reminding a user that everyone doesn't have the same requirements
seems to me to be helpful. Insisting that the user accommodate those
others without knowing the scope of application is ... well ... as
narrow minded as we are telling the user s/he is. And perhaps less
well informed.
-- Tommie
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