Hi Alex, On 14. Jan, 2015, at 13:09, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote:
> Hi Jon, > >> I don’t quite get this. I have done as you suggested, (locale "NO" >> "no") and leading 0, so I can now enter a phone number as 099887766. You >> say it will be stored internally with leading 47 instead of that 0, but > > Right. You see that if you look directly into the DB. > > >> when I put the mouse over that phone-pencil icon, it seems that >> "tel:099887766" is what will be used (and that’s also the href I see in >> the inspector). >> ... >> If I try to dial 022852804 from my mobile, I get "number not in use". > > I see. So Norway has different systematics with telephone numbers. > > I don't understand them, though. In Germany we have the rule that both > "0049 123 456" and "+49 123 456" are the same as "0123 456". > > A number without a leading zero is a local number (within the same city, > but that's almost obsolete these days as you can take your number with > you when you move or change your provider, so you can't rely on that). > > The '+TelField' (based on the functions 'telStr' and 'expTel') handles > this. What are the exact rules for Norway? And how can we handle this > flexibly? > > ♪♫ Alex > — I think this page describes Norwegian telephone numbers quite well: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Norway> It also seems that the Danish numbers are somewhat similar: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Denmark> I may not be the right person to say how we can handle this flexibly. ;-) I don’t know if it can be of any help, but here is Google’s common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers: <https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber> /Jon
