Re: Fuzzy phone number matching

2008-07-16 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 16.07.2008, 17:43 +0100 schrieb Chris Lord: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 18:04 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am Dienstag, den 15.07.2008, 23:20 +0200 schrieb Jay Vaughan: > > > > What would be a good way to tackle this issue? Anything else but tell > > > > our use

Re: Fuzzy phone number matching

2008-07-16 Thread Chris Lord
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 18:04 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 15.07.2008, 23:20 +0200 schrieb Jay Vaughan: > > > What would be a good way to tackle this issue? Anything else but tell > > > our users always to write +49172..., even when dialing by hand? > > > > Match the pho

Re: Fuzzy phone number matching

2008-07-16 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 15.07.2008, 23:20 +0200 schrieb Jay Vaughan: > > What would be a good way to tackle this issue? Anything else but tell > > our users always to write +49172..., even when dialing by hand? > > Match the phone numbers backwards from right to left instead of left > to right, and

Re: Fuzzy phone number matching

2008-07-15 Thread Jay Vaughan
> What would be a good way to tackle this issue? Anything else but tell > our users always to write +49172..., even when dialing by hand? Match the phone numbers backwards from right to left instead of left to right, and throw away 'whitespace' which would be defined as 'anything that isn't a

Fuzzy phone number matching

2008-07-15 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, the current openmoko stack (2007.2) has a problem with phone numbers: It matches them in various places (to put SMS to the right contact, to display the contacts with similar phone number while dialing etc.). In all these places, it does not handle it well when a phone number is not “fully qua