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Another common falsehood would be "phone numbers everywhere are structured the same as in the US", e.g. with a three letter area code.
by f_allwein 11y ago
Another common falsehood would be "phone numbers everywhere are structured the same as in the US", e.g. with a three letter area code.
- OJFord 11y agoUgh, yes. Just from a UX perspective, I hate it when I enter my number and it's reformatted as I type into a strange (to me) looking arrangement due to this assumption.
- OJFord 11y agoUgh, yes. Just from a UX perspective, I hate it when I enter my number and it's reformatted as I type into a strange (to me) looking arrangement due to this assumption.
- Symbiote 11y agoOr the assumption that all numbers in a single country are formatted the same way. 020 1234 5678 London. 0121 123 4566 Birmingham. 01234 567 890 Some small town somewhere. 07987 654321 Mobile. (Is that right? Maybe a second space.)
- stordoff 11y agoYou also can't assume that the user knows how the number should be formatted/split. When Sheffield moved from six to seven digit numbers, '2' was prepended to all existing numbers, so 0114 XXX XXX became 0114 2XXX XXX. A fairly large number of people interpreted that as an area code change instead of a actual number change (see, e.g. [0]), and I still see signs giving business numbers formatted like "(01142 XXX XXX)". [0] http://www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/out-and-about/calling-sheffield-0114-3-1-290413 http://www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/out-and-about/calling-she...
- walshemj 11y agoI have always seen the uk non metropolitan addresses written as 01234 567890.
- Symbiote 11y agoYou are correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_Unite...
- kuschku 11y agoOr Germany. 0163 9256357 01573 0677867 040 12345 The first two are actually valid numbers (some of my old numbers, which are still active, but unused). Btw, an area code doesn't have to actually refer to that area — you can keep phone numbers if moving across area code boundaries in Germany, so a 040 number might actually be used by someone living in 0431.
- tallanvor 11y agoOr that people format numbers the same way in the same city. In Oslo I see some people writing numbers as XXXX XXXX and others writing them as XXX XX XXX.