Pierangelo Masarati wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, it isn't that simple. Stanford is its own tel-co, >> which means we support all sorts of interesting things, like 5 digit >> numbers (first number is your stanford local prefix) and text numbers >> (5-HELP). > > I wouldn't find that weird for an APPROX matchingRule to turn aphas into > digits for comparison.
Are you sure that this alpha-digit-translation is always the same in every country? > I think this > could apply worldwide, except for those places where the leading "0" (or > whatever) in the area code gets stripped when the country code is also > present (Sweden for sure; don't know but many other countries likely). Germany also. This leads to interesting combinations how people try to express that in their e-mail footers. You'll find nearly everything. +49-721-9876-123 +49 (0)721/9876-123 ++49-721-9876-123 ++49-(0)721-9876-123 0049/721/9876-123 ... Note that 00 is the prefix for international phone calls here in Germany. :-/ Ciao, Michael.
