[idea] Seperation of area code and phone number

asked 2014-12-07 14:30:21 +0200

boltzmann138 gravatar image

updated 2014-12-07 18:28:42 +0200

When entering or displaying a phone number, Sailfish currently shows it as one single element. Other OS - I've seen it on iOS and android - have a nice feature, they seperate the area code from the rest of the number by inserting a space between them. Here is an example: http://media2.giga.de/2013/08/ios7b5_telefon.jpg

I've owned an iPhone for a couple of month and really liked that feature. It looks nice and makes it easier to recognize the phone number (e.g. when dictating it to a friend).

According to Sailfish design principles, Sailfish appreciates "legible texts". So I think that this feature pefectly fits to the Sailfish design and is worth a look at.

What do you think?

edit: I'd like to mention that I mean to add the spaces only for displaying purposes. As suggested by ITU-T E.164, phone numbers should not contain spaces when they are stored.

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+1

I agree.

Pistol ( 2014-12-07 16:00:47 +0200 )edit

I personally do not like those spaces inside the numbers, it provides confusions when sending or copy/pasting via text messages. I would rather keep it this way.

damourti ( 2014-12-07 16:40:52 +0200 )edit
2

The space could be only visual when the number is shown in the Phone, Messages or People app and when copy&pasting the space wouldn't be there?

avhakola ( 2014-12-07 16:54:25 +0200 )edit
4

This should be only used when displaying numbers. When copying or pushing the number to a server, there should not be spaces of course.

boltzmann138 ( 2014-12-07 17:05:43 +0200 )edit
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This is very similar to https://together.jolla.com/question/58688/add-space-to-phone-numbers-in-people-app/

saturn ( 2014-12-07 17:40:50 +0200 )edit