Re: Postal address layouts?

[Chad Hardin]

Also, something to consider, Some countries do not have "states", they 
have "Provinces".
There are probably a few more names for the same thing out there too.

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 02:55 AM, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  Address in Taiwan (probably also in China) is reverse order:
>
>  ((State, ZipCode, City),
>   ("$¶l¬F«H½c", POBox, "$¸¹"),
>   (Street, ExtendedAddress).
>   (Country))
>
>  Country is sort of weird in Taiwan
>  because people don't write it locally.
>  If it is international mail,
>  people usually add it in the end of address as western style
>  so that this mail can be send to the right country.
>  In this case, the country tend to be in English rather than Chinese.
>
>  Yen-Ju
>
> > From: Björn Giesler <giesler@ira.uka.de>
> > To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> > Subject: Postal address layouts?
> > Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:08:02 +0100
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > one more thing... I'm looking for postal address layouts for 
> > different countries for the next release of Contacts.app. The problem 
> > is that postal addresses are different for each country, so I 
> > represent them in property lists looking something like this:
> >
> > (("$Postfach", POBox),
> >  (Street),
> >  (ExtendedAddress),
> >  (ZipCode, City),
> >  (State),
> >  (Country))
> >
> > Each sub-array is a line as it would appear on a letter. Entries 
> > starting with "$" are interpreted as literal strings, everything else 
> > is a key into the data base. The proplist above contains all the 
> > possible keys.
> >
> > Please, could those who have a couple of free minutes hack something 
> > like this together for their countries? I have German, US and 
> > Romanian, and I need everything else.
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance,
> >                 --Björn
> >
> >
> >
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