On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:13:15PM -0500, Chris Browne wrote: > What you seem to be after, here, would confine your telno formatting > to telephone numbers for Canada and the United States, and would break > any time people have a need to express telephone numbers outside those > two countries. > > It would be quite interesting to add an EB164 type, as it could > represent phone numbers considerably more compactly than is the case > for plain strings. The 20 digits permissible across 1. and 2. could > be encoded in... 68 bits. And it would be trivial to provide functions to map that into the customary format for various countries. In fact, since there's 4 bits left over, it might be possible to encode the formatting used for the number in the storage itself. BTW, you sure about 68 bits? That doesn't seem to allow for a full 20 digit number; or are there restrictions on the max value for one of the fields? -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
