Hi Brian, Glad to hear about your success with your project. Will answer your questions as they apply to the US.
Phone numbers: Format in US is xxx-zzz-zzzz - first three digits are the area code; next seven digits, the telephone number. This format applies to all cases. Mobile phones are generally called cellphones or cellular phones. They are sometimes called mobile phones. I believe leaving this as mobile phone would be generally understood. I don't do text messaging, so I am not familiar with terms for this. Am sure someone else will chime in with this info. Date format is the same as in Australia. Address format is generally the same as in Australia. Differences: State is 2-letter code. ZipCode is a 5 digit code. More complete ZipCode addressing includes an additional 4 digit appendage, but this is not required. Hope this helps. All the best, Tony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Hancock Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 11:19 PM To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group Subject: [Dataperf] Internationalisation or is Internationalization Hi Everyone, I am well on my way towards completing what I am hoping we will be a commercially viable dynamic web application based on DataPerfect. Those who have followed what I have been doing I have been writing a web application for my football (soccer) club, and have been successfully piloting it over the past season. About 5 months ago, another of my other clients asked me what I had been up to and I told him about it, and he showed interest, and in fact committed his club to using it if I was prepared to sell it to them. I have had lots of similar responses, and so I have been spending lots of time writing the software. The market for the software in Australia would be reasonably limited, and in some measure would be hard to make commercially viable solely for this market, so I have been internationalising it at much as I can, but now I am getting to the fine details I was just wanting to check out some details about other markets. I want to concentrate on English speaking markets to start with, eg Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada and the USA, only because I am more familiar with those countries, but I still have some details, which I am hoping some of you might be able to help out with: Phone Numbers What is the format of phone numbers, eg for Australia it is (xx) zzzz-zzzz (where "xx" is the area code and "zzzz-zzzz") that basic format will also work for home, mobile (cell) and most work phones in Australia, What is the format that works most of the time there? What are mobile phones usually called? mobile, cell? When I send a text message from my mobile phone to another mobile phone, I call that an SMS. Is it usually called an SMS ot Text Messaging or something else? Generally do all mobile phones have SMS/Text capabilities? Is there anything that distinguishes a mobile phone from landline phones, in Australia mobiles phones have the area code (04) Dates In Australia our date format is usually of the form dd/mm/yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy, what is the normal date format there? Addresses In Australia I would my address as: Brian Hancock xx yyyyyyyyyy Rd Gladesville NSW 2111 being: name xx=street_number yyyyyyyyy=street_name street_type suburb/town/city state postcode What is the most common format for addressing in your country? In Australia we do not need to note the city, for example Gladeville is a Suburb of Sydney, but we do not need to mention the city. Is that the same in your country? What do you call the component of the address street address, or just address, suburb or town or ??? state, province or region postcode or zipcode Do you usually use state or region abbreviations in addresses? In Australia the format of a postcode is always 4 digits eg 2111. What is the postalcode format there? Is there anything I have missed that I should have asked. Sorry to burden you with these question... I hope you do not mind. Thanks Brian _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
