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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] pretty printing of street addresses
From:       Jost Schenck <jost.schenck () gmx ! de>
Date:       2002-08-30 15:21:33
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Hi,
Jan-Pascal noted that we already have a country information in every address 
-- so it basically does not need any additional field in the format.
-Jost.

On Friday 30 August 2002 17:02, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:50:41PM +0200, Jost Schenck wrote:
> > On Friday 30 August 2002 12:15, Tobias Koenig wrote:
>
> Hi Jost,
>
> > Yes, this is of course possible. The problem I thought of was: how do I
> > get the format string ("template") for a particular address?
> > You would have to store the information which formatting should be used
> > for every address -- I have friends in Germany as well as in the US and
> > when I write a letter to an american friend, I use the american style
> > formatting. There even exist people who have a house in Germany and a
> > holiday house in Florida so the information which format to use is not
> > even an attribute of an addressee. Ideally, one would have to store this
> > information per address. I don't know if e.g. the vCard format can handle
> > this.
>
> I think thats overkill. If we follow this way somebody wants to have one
> addressee in arabic letters from right to left and an other addressee in
> japanese letters from top to bottom etc. etc.
> We can't store all this informations in a smart and consitent way since
> libkabc (vcard) doesn't support it.
>
> Ciao,
> Tobias

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