Address formats are hard, let's go shopping!

re: Address fornats are hard, let's go shopping!

Nick Lamb — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:54:44 GMT

Do you think 14652 is a useful contribution here?

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Jason — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:14:46 GMT

"Math is hard, let's go shopping" came from a talking Barbie doll. Mattel got a lot of heat for that one (people believed it made the science and math gap between males and females worse). Later models of the Barbie had the phrase deleted.

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Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:17:02 GMT

Not really -- 14652 is a standard that has no honest interest from actual folks who would be implementing the actual standard, and from a process standpoint I would agree with the Japan NB on the way it has been managed and handled.

There is nothing useful that has come out of or probably ever will come out of 14652.

re: Address fornats are hard, let's go shopping!

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:18:31 GMT

Thanks Jason -- I did wonder where that phrase came from! :-)

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Shoshannah Forbes — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:34:57 GMT

The thing is- even if I'm in a certain local, it doesn't mean that the addresses I work with will have the same format.
I am in Israel, but in my (Apple) address book I have people from France, Belgium, USA and UK. One format set by my local will simply not work for them.
Apple found a nice solution which I like very much- the *default* address format goes by my local. However, for each contact in my address book, I can right click (or CTRL+click if I had only one button), and set the address to a format that matches a different local.

I haven't checked- does Outlook support that kind of thing? Or is the display of the address format limited to a single one for all contacts?

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aside — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:29:49 GMT

Spelling 'format' is hard, let's go shopping.

Just pointing out your usage of the less common spelling with the 'n' :D

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Michael S. Kaplan — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:56:49 GMT

Oops! There is a typo worth fixing! :-)

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Liz — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:18:25 GMT

This snowclone reminds me of a joke I heard from a highschool student with (well-remediated) ADHD:

How many kids with ADHD does it take to change a lightbulb?
Let's ride bikes!

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anutthara — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:26:21 GMT

Thanks for the post, Michael. Infact I was asked this q by Kranthi, a colleague of mine. We have a working group for i18n here in India Dev Centre of Microsoft, where we do come across some interesting qs asked by other developers. Your blog continues to be an indispensable source of info for all such curious qs which may not be answered anywhere else on the web! Keep at it...

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002892.html

TrackBack — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:24:39 GMT

Is it a bird? Or a plane, perhaps? No, it's my neurologist!

Sorting It All Out — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:23:56 GMT

(Warning -- nothing technical in this post -- so if that's not your thing then skip it!!) Heading downtown