• railsdev@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    You should be localizing it before displaying to users. Let their browser/platform decide.

    Personally I can’t stand the format you’ve shown. I also can’t stand periods being used for phone numbers, e.g. 555.555.5555.

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      11 months ago

      My company has decided to standardized on phone numbers with dots instead of dashes. They’re in email signatures, memos, client proposals. I absolutely hate it and it rubs me the wrong way every time I see it. It’s wrong.

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        11 months ago

        In Germany this is standardized, too. DIN 5008 for phone numbers. Areacode Number-extension. For example 0123 456789-01

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          11 months ago

          I use a standardization library for phone numbers. It makes parsing any user input dead easy, storing it as a standard string (can’t think of the standard name) and then outputting in the country’s respective format. I don’t have to inject a bunch of JavaScript crap that’s like “wrong format” and harass users; the backend sorts it all out.