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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Call for help: l10n of addressing formats
From:       Jost Schenck <jost.schenck () gmx ! de>
Date:       2003-03-05 10:23:59
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Hi Nicolas,

thanks for the pointers. I do know the UPU documents (I really tried to dive 
into this dull topic :). From what I understand, that 
formatting_international_address_en.pdf does not say that it's always on the 
last line, but that it depends on the country the item is posted. However, 
the two examples both are of countries with the destination country 
positioned below. Still, the switzerland example illustrates that the 
LC_ADDRESS way of storing all in one tag line is not sufficient, as you need 
info specific to the country of origin and not only of the destination. 
Another example is that in some countries capitals are customary, in others 
not.

Regarding Japan I really hope I'm not a complete fool now :) When I now 
searched for it again, all examples found sadly were for letters from outside 
to japan only. Info on that the country name should be above was for example 
in http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/internationaladdressing.html. 
There were more resources saying this, but I can't find them right now 
*blush*. Maybe someone from Japan can enlighten me on this. I'm really 
getting confused.

-Jost.


On Tuesday 04 March 2003 23:20, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> You might find useful some documents of the Universal Postal Union (
> www.upu.int ):
> http://www.upu.int/post_code/en/international_addressing.shtml
>
> So I suppose that it is the reason why the country position is not
> specified in LC_ADDRESS. The country is *always* in the last line.
>
> From these documents, the example that you have given for Japan seems not
> valid.
>
> What you have written about Japan surprise me even more, as my father had
> received a calendar as gift form a Japenese client and on the label of the
> package the country is in the last line. (And it seems to have been send by
> post, as there is also a "Deutsche Post AG" label.)
>
> However, I am not a specialist so... you may put my info into /dev/null.
>
> I just hope that it could help you a little further.
>
> Have a nice day/evening/night!

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