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Written by Matthew Slowe on 2025-01-16 at 16:04

[#]grr

Today's #grr is brought to you by means of web forms asking for "phone numbers" which don't accept the international number format.

While I have a UK phone number (starting 07) not everyone who interacts with a given company does -- some may have an international number but happen to be living the UK for a bit, some may not have one at all (shocking, I know).

Forcing validation which restricts a phone number to be 0-numbers is just wrong. Don't do it.

Thanks,

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Written by Linker3000 on 2025-01-16 at 16:39

@fooflington And while you're at it, some people space out phone numbers, credit/debit numbers and postcodes...deal with it.

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Written by Gary Parker on 2025-01-16 at 17:44

@fooflington as an (ex-)telephone engineer, I get extremely tetchy when a web form makes you select the international code (+44, for example), then rejects the subscriber number if it isn’t prefixed with a zero

Eg. +4401509222222 is not a correctly formatted dial string, it should be +441509222222 or 01509222222

Yes, I should get a life, I know 😂

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