International forms are a bit of a nightmare to sort out. Starting at the top - the name of the person... Many countries/cultures have differing ways of stating their name, this article is a lot more verbose than I could be on the subject and makes for interesting reading: http://rishida.net/blog/?p=100
Once you get past the name conundrum you then get into the differing ways of formatting addresses. For example, below are the addresses for the British Embassy in a couple of different countries: British Embassy (Finland) Itäinen Puistotie 17 00140 Helsinki British Embassy (South Africa) 255 Hill Street Arcadia 0002 Pretoria British Embassy (Ireland) 29 Merrion Road Dublin 4 British Embassy (Washington, USA) 3100 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC, 20008 Home Office (British Embassy equivalent in UK) 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF Beyond a building number and road, these all have very different formats and could each throw up a large number of problems with forcing validation. Our only solution to these problems so far has been to tailor forms and/or their validation to take account of these nuances. It isn't a particularly good way of doing it, but was the most open way we have found of doing it. James ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
