RE: [PHP] including parenthesis, space and dashes in a phone number
| From: | Daevid Vincent | Date: | Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:25:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] including parenthesis, space and dashes in a phone number | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Vail [mailto:warren@vailtech.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:17 PM
> To: 'Jochem Maas'
> Cc: 'afan pasalic'; 'Daevid Vincent'; 'php-general'
> Subject: RE: [PHP] including parenthesis, space and dashes in
> a phone number
>
> I did not know that about Windows Letter formatting, well,
> not all Americans
> think everything revolves around the way Americans do things.
> Knowing a
> little about Microsoft marketing strategy, they probably feel
> they should
> charge extra for providing more flexible formatting.
>
> I do believe a good site designer, will plan for a global
> market, instead of
> a local US one, even if others fail to share his vision.
My product/service is currently only a US/domestic one.
When the day comes that we need to make it international, we'll have a lot more to worry about
than simple phone number display. There will be "gettext()" involved and .po/.mo files and
all that other hassle (I know, I've done it before with other companies). Also date formats
will change from m/d/y to y-m-d too.
So I would counter and say, a good site designer, designs for their target audience... ;-)