>>>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> On the subject of "Re: Postal codes"
>>>> Sent on 14 Jul 2000 17:04:33 +0100
>>>> Honorable Kevin Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 >> 
 >>  If I had time I'd rip out all the phone number parsing stuff (does
 >>  it actually do anything useful ?) and just replace it all with
 >>  opaque strings. In fact given the number of US phone numbers I've
 >>  seen that use letters instead of numbers (eg 1-800-SOS-APPL),
 >>  surely that's the right thing to do even in the US ?

I find phone canonicalization enormously useful.

I think we should keep all phone numbers as strings, and have a user
variable bbdb-phone-canonicalize which should be nil for "as is" or a
function which is applied to the phone and should return the
canonicalized phone string.

Same for zip codes (bbdb-zip-canonicalize).

Unless someone objects, I will do something like this next week.

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