Questions about addresses

David Faure dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Thu Jul 15 18:47:53 CEST 2004


On Saturday 10 July 2004 18:28, you wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> > In a contact:
> > 
> > * the XML has room for a "display-name" per email-address. Is 
> > this something that is needed for e.g. Outlook?
> > In KDE we have one name, e.g. "David Faure", and multiple 
> > email addresses (faure at kde.org, 
> > dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se). Does any client support 
> > the concept of a different full name depending on the smtp-address?
> 
> Yes. The contact can have his business email address
> "Boss"<boss at big.inc>
> And a games address
> "Loser"<loser at games.com>

OK. But since KDE's addressbook doesn't seem to support that, I have to
ignore the display-name of the email addresses completely and use the 
full-name of the contact instead....

> > * Real-world addresses have fields named <city> <state> <zip> 
> > <country>
> > 
> > This is very U.S-specific and very city-specific (I live in a 
> > village, not in a city :). 
> > In KDE we use more politically-correct and universal denominations:
> > - locality         [i.e. city or village]
> > - region          [e.g. state for the US]
> > - postal code
> > - country
> > 
> > (There's also post-office-box, and "extended" address 
> > information, but that will be kde-specific tags I guess)
> > 
> > Is it OK to change <city> to <locality>, <state> to <region>, 
> > and <zip> to <postal-code> ?
> 
> No problem. Just a request, keep the "translation" in the spec, so that
> people that work with zip know that it is postal-code in the spec, etc.

OK, done.

-- 
David Faure -- faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions




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