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On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:13:39 +0100, Johnny wrote:
> Luca Capello 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
Luca Capello 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 supp
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:31:50 +0100, Roland Winkler wrote:
> On Wed Feb 2 2011 Johnny wrote:
>> This is a good idea; the current BBDB handling seems very
>> US-centered. For one, I think "Postal code" should replace the American
>> term "Zip code" as default naming, as this seems to be th
On Wed Feb 2 2011 Johnny wrote:
> This is a good idea; the current BBDB handling seems very
> US-centered. For one, I think "Postal code" should replace the American
> term "Zip code" as default naming, as this seems to be the generic
> term.
This becomes yet more complicated. I vaguely remember t
On Thu Feb 3 2011 Leo wrote:
> > It appears to me that the room number could become a second street
> > part. (The street part of a BBDB address is really just a list of
> > strings.)
> >
> > Also, newlines would become part of the format specification. So if
> > the format specification for chines
On 2011-02-03 00:41 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
>> This is still awkward for Chinese addresses. In bbdb2 it was so awkward
>> to put address in the address field that I have to put them in the notes
>> field.
>>
>> This is because we tend to use one line for the address and it is
>> specified fro
On Wed Feb 2 2011 Leo wrote:
> > One could have the format specifiers
> >
> > %s streets (used repeatedly for each street part)
> > %c city
> > %z zip code
> > %S state
> > %C country
>
> This is still awkward for Chinese addresses. In bbdb2 it was so awkward
> to put address in the address f
"Roland Winkler" writes:
> I am thinking about ways to make the formatting of snail mail
> addresses more flexible.
This is a good idea; the current BBDB handling seems very
US-centered. For one, I think "Postal code" should replace the American
term "Zip code" as default naming, as this seems t
On 2011-02-02 23:15 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
> Yet currently BBDB has only two hard-coded functions
> bbdb-format-address-default and bbdb-format-address-continental.
> I am thinking about replacing this scheme by a generic function
> bbdb-format-address that uses some kind of format strings fo
I am thinking about ways to make the formatting of snail mail
addresses more flexible. In my BBDB I have addresses from a few
countries in the world, and each goes with slightly different
formatting styles, in particular for city, zip code and state.
Yet currently BBDB has only two hard-coded func
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