On Wed Feb 2 2011 Johnny wrote: > 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.
This becomes yet more complicated. I vaguely remember that some other english-speaking countries use yet different names instead of "zip code" and "postal code", but I forgot where it was and what their alternative terminology was... > > 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 impressed what is covered by some ISO-xyz! Yet I guess what matters in the end is what people actually like to use in real life... > > 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... Well, I want to ask: Is the scheme I proposed general enough to make most people happy? Or is it necessary to have something yet more complicated (and possibly less user-friendly? I wouldn't like that either...) Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
