Phone Number Display - Great Fix for those in the US

[linzhixua34]

This raises a good point. There are generally accepted standards for telephone number database display such that you have country code, area code and the actual number. Around Europe there are different ways of laying out the actual number such as in pairs or fours or three and four etc but basically the important items to split out are the area code and country code. Outlook and Act! for example make use of this feature and have a built in feature which works out the layout based on the country code you have entered. It is worth pointing out that even in one country (e.g. UK) there can be many varieties of layout. London is now 020 and not 0207 or 0208 as some people think, and then 4 plus 4 eg 020 7234 5678. Internationally this is written as +44 (0)20 7234 5678. This also helps to ensure your pda/cell doesn't have a hissy fit when you move your numbers over. Also worht pointing out that it is not unusual for area codes to change and a separate field for area code helps make changes more straightforward.

As an Open-Source project and standards based (I hope) This would be a useful enhancement for Sugar to consider

[codybraxton]

This is a feature that must be added to Sugar.

[crd56]

There are generally accepted standards for telephone number database display such that you have country code, area code and the actual number.

London is now 020 and not 0207 or 0208 as some people think, and then 4 plus 4 eg 020 7234 5678. Internationally this is written as +44 (0)20 7234 5678.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.123
http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.123-200102-I/en
http://27.org/isocountrylist/

Hold on one moment; +44 (0)20 7234 5678 is incorrect.

E.123 specifies to omit the (0) in the international format.

Use only the +44 20 7234 5678 format here.

Some countries do require the zero to be dialled, e.g. Italy

e.g. +39 06 234 5678.

[Musicat]

linzhixua34, please be aware that it is not good practice to simply rip off someonelse's posting in full without giving proper attribution. See http://tinyurl.com/36owhpl for the original thread with original post by my colleage Heytimc. Moderators, please could you merge these threads?