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

2002-10-08 Thread Doug Ewell
Marco Cimarosti marco dot cimarosti at essetre dot it 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

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 free

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

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. Yao

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 Chinese addresses. These might