Hi there! Please do not Cc: me, I read the list.
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:13:39 +0100, Johnny wrote: > Luca Capello <l...@pca.it> writes: > >> I do not think there is even a *used* standard within a single country, >> at least here in Switzerland I saw different layouts sometime according >> to where the sender lives (French/German/Italian part). And none of the >> examples at the UPU website uses this ISO-3166 supposed standard: >> >> >> <http://www.upu.int/en/activities/addressing/postal-addressing-systems-in-member-countries.html> > This is an international problem of cooperation. If there is an > International Standard, supported by an Organisation (yes, ISO was > intentionally capitalised), it should be adhered to, unless there is > compelling evidence to the contrary (of outstanding benefit). Fully agree. > I think, in this case, it is merely a topic of custom and practice I > think, and if any practice is to be adopted for an application with > international usage, an internationally accepted standard should be > adhered to, if at least to support and strengthen the collaborative > effort, which I believe FOSS and Gnu is all about. > > If bbdb is going to use any country abbreviations, they should be > according to ISO is my opinion. However, as far as I am aware, postcodes > do not appear in ISO and should be locally (user) specified. Please note that we were not discussing about country abbreviations, but about the label for the postal code. Now that I thought a bit more about it, given that we use "postcards" we should use "postcode" and not "postal code" as I previously suggested. Going back to country abbreviations, FWIW BBDB-2 already adheres to the EU standard (which as I reported is not even respected by the UPU): |-----------------+-----------------------------------------| | file | elisp code | |-----------------+-----------------------------------------| | bbdb.el | `bbdb-format-address-continental' | | bbdb-com.el | `bbdb-legal-zip-codes' | | bbdb-migrate.el | ` bbdb-unmigrate-zip-codes-to-strings' | | bbdb-print.el | `bbdb-print-format-address-continental' | |-----------------+-----------------------------------------| Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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