Re: [ANN] World Address Project starts and relies on Unicode heavily

2002-10-07 Thread Doug Ewell
Marco Cimarosti wrote: > I am really quite sick of those forms that, after I have specified my > country is Italy, force me to fill in my "state"! I usually, have to > select "Michigan", which has the same acronym ("MI") as the province > of Milan. I hope I'll never move in the province of Flore

Re: [ANN] World Address Project starts and relies on Unicode heavily

2002-10-07 Thread Stefan Persson
- Original Message - From: "Carl W. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:19 PM Subject: RE: [ANN] World Address Project starts and relies on Unicode heavily > Unicode is not a complete solution. Yao mentioned

RE: [ANN] World Address Project starts and relies on Unicode heavily

2002-10-07 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Carl W. Brown wrote: > Marco, > Things are a bit more complicated. The address should be in > the format & language of the recipient but the country > should be in the language and positioned according to the > sending country. Er... Have I denied this? > Unicode is not a complete solution. Y

RE: [ANN] World Address Project starts and relies on Unicode heavily

2002-10-07 Thread Carl W. Brown
RE: [ANN] World Address Project starts and relies on Unicode > heavily > > > > Dear all, > > > > World Address Project promotes an idea of utilizing Unicode on online > > shopping websites for solving the international shipping > > address problem. > > T

RE: [ANN] World Address Project starts and relies on Unicode heavily

2002-10-07 Thread jarkko.hietaniemi
> A welcome initiative! Indeed. > I especially hope that your FAQ, when it will be > ready, will contain useful suggestions. Googling for "international address formats" brings up some nice starting points: http://www.bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html http://www.bitboost.com

RE: [ANN] World Address Project starts and relies on Unicode heavily

2002-10-07 Thread Marco Cimarosti
> Dear all, > > World Address Project promotes an idea of utilizing Unicode on online > shopping websites for solving the international shipping > address problem. > This will greatly benefit both customers and online businesses. > > Please take a look at http://www.bytecool.com/wap/ and feel

[ANN] World Address Project starts and relies on Unicode heavily

2002-10-07 Thread ByteCool Software
Dear all, World Address Project promotes an idea of utilizing Unicode on online shopping websites for solving the international shipping address problem. This will greatly benefit both customers and online businesses. Please take a look at http://www.bytecool.com/wap/ and feel free to send quest