This wasn't UI as much as it was data model. Also, the guy they had doing the official i18n libraries had a default position of We Only Do The Right Thing. Adm

This wasn't UI as much as it was data model. Also, the guy they had doing the official i18n libraries had a default position of We Only Do The Right Thing. Admirable, but not fun to work with. So even if I proved to him that our downstream vendors, and indeed almost all French companies, handled these special French zip codes with a simple hack... that wasn't good enough for him.