Kevin Davidson writes:
 > John F. Whitehead writes:
 > John> `bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p'

 >  Sorry. Doesn't work for the default area code stuff. The Edinburgh
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Well, that could actually be made a string, or are there any
objections ?

 >  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

Well, I guess "real Americans" (TM) see it as something good ;-)

 >  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 ?

They use these numbers because you can remember them out of your head, 
there is no need to store them in your bbdb ;-))


Well, as someone pointed out we could change the default behaviour to
be non-american phone numbers. And with non-american phone-numbers the 
default area-code would be a string (or in any case, v.s.).

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