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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:56:53 +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxx.xx> wrote: > forms that require entering a US state. There seem to be two variants of those - the "better" ones (and I do use that word loosely) merely make a it a required field, possibly two characters long. The more hateful ones give you a drop-down list to choose from; if they're especially "enlightened" they may also include Canadian provinces, and/or APO codes. Well, it so happens that Germany has two-digit ISO abbreviations for its states... but they're never used when sending paper mail. Nor should the postal code (which, luckily perhaps, is five digits since the reunification) come after the town: 21077 Hamburg, not "Hamburg, HH 21077". Idiots. Why not provide a free-form text field that lets people enter as many rows as they need[*], in whatever form the loval post office expects? Probably because users are idiots, too. [*] English addresses are especially infamous for occasionally requiring six or more rows of address. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@xxxxx.xxx>There's stuff above here
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