At 13:13 -0400 2002/04/10, JPB Cliveden wrote: >What SHOULD NOT be done, as many of my European colleagues erroneously do, >is to preface the area code with a "(0)" to indicate that "0" is the long >distance prefix for national calls within that country.
You seem to know a lot about canonical telephone numbering system, therefore you can advise me : I use to write my phone number as +33 (0)2 9927 2588. As you certainly know it, in France as in many other European countries (not in the UK) there is no difference in the number for long distance or local calls : they all start with 0. However the initial 0 is dropped when calling from a different country. For example somebody in Belgium will call me by dialing 00 33 2 9927 2588. Am I wrong in putting the O within parenthesis ? Louis
