Re: Is BBDB really that bad?

[Jarl Friis <jarl@diku.dk>]

spamtrap@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On 01 Oct 2002 08:18:58 +0200, Jarl Friis wrote:
> 
> >>  David Pisinger - DIKU
> >>            Phone: 35 32 13 54
> >>             Work: Datalogisk Institut
> >>                   Universitetsparken 1
> >>                   DK-2100 Copenhagen
> >>                   Denmark
> >>              net: pisinger@diku.dk
> 
> >> Doesn't look USA-centric to me.
> 
> > It does to me.
> 
> Please explain what part of Mr. Pisingers address that looks
> USA-centric to you.

I did already.

> 
> bbdb reproduces it, and the phonenumber, exactly as I entered it, from
> his webpage.

Obviously, Mr. Pisinger does not know how Danish addresses are supposed
to be written. Because his website is in english, my guess is that he
think it should be that way (maybe because he uses BBDB and have been
confused by that).

If we are going into the technicalities of how danish addresses are to
be written then "just because some websites uses this format" is not a
valuable argument.

If we take a more official home page; The home page of the danish
postal distribution company (Post Danmark), they represent their
address as I described it earlier (even on their english webpage).

To complete this discussion there is only one thing to do: contact
Post Danmark and ask them to come up with a concise recipe of
how danish addresses are supposed to be written.

> 
> > Even using (setq bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p nil), I have
> > not been able to enter any valid danish addresses yet with
> > bbdb-create, but that may just as well be because I try on
> > xemacs-beta.
> 
> Probably, I have no problems with Danish chars. I'm using:
> 
>  XEmacs 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" [Lucid] (i386-debian-linux,
>   Mule) of Tue Aug  6 2002 on eeyore
> 
>  BBDB version 2.35 ($Date: 2002/08/14 19:00:58 $)
> 
>  Oort Gnus v0.07

I will eventually try with these versions and come up with another
opinion.

Jarl