"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> 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 to be the generic term.
> I am thinking about replacing this scheme by a generic function > bbdb-format-address that uses some kind of format strings for > addresses from different countries. ... > If I remember correctly, Europe introduced zip codes like CH-8052, > NL-2300RA, and SE-132 54 I guess this stems from ISO-3166? It does seem appealing to use this standard, but it could take some effort to implement; e.g. would a lookup table be necessary? > I am not yet sure what is the best way how to combine a look-up table > based on country names with a zip-based scheme. Wikipedia lists a few formattings of postal codes; however this is not defined in ISO-3166. Maybe there's some other source for this though... -- Johnny ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
