[SHR] Setting regional codes

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:01:48AM +0200, Christ van Willegen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra<rms at 1407.org> wrote:
> > + should be an alias to 00 if at the beggining of a number. This usage of +
> > is so common and international that it would be IMHO dumb to intentionally
> > ignore it.
> 
> Not only that, but I intentionally store all my numbers in the +
> (usually +31...) format, since not every country has 00 as its
> international prefix!
> 
> If you look at http://www.kropla.com/dialcode.htm, there is a whole
> list of IDD codes, and there are lots of 'em that aren't 00...

Ah... that's news for me, I thought 00 was a standard! Then + as a "standard"
is perfectly natural, it's a way to hide that complexity from a normal
person, then the phone must know from the country code if it's 00, 0011, etc...

Sucks... it makes it a bit confusing... for instance:

Portugal +351...
Albania  +355...

Fortunately there's no +35 so you can have a rule for "+35X NUMBER"

> I'm looking forward to having full number recognition, since I now
> regularly have to 'mentally lookup' a number when it's calling me...

Bah, it's good for your memory! :)

Rui