Re: Storing Telephone Numbers

A quick search on the internet, Microsoft has some guidelines at :
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/getwr/steps/wrg_telnum.mspx

It's not that helpful but it's a start I spose!

Regards
Simon

From: "CWNoah2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Storing Telephone Numbers
Date: 29 November 2003 12:45

Is there a table anywhere of different country formats which could be used
with
country code to provide output formatting of stored raw numbers?

Regards,
Charlie Noah

Kevin Powick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>> How many of you store
>> phone numbers as a 7 or 10 digit number (string) and then format the
number
>> for display or how many store the formatted number
>
>I generally designate fields for country code, city/area code, local
>number, and extension.  This probably covers most situations and allows
>you to assemble/format the output as you see fit.  MS Outlook uses this
>approach (minus the extension field) and I think it works pretty well.
>
>I don't force formatting because many international numbers don't
>follow a North American (nnn) nnn-nnnn format.  However, the only field
>that I allow non-numerics (dash, dot, and space) is the local number.
>-- 
>Kevin Powick


Charlie Noah ([EMAIL PROTECTED])