[_] Phone number links on websites
Andrew Holway
andrew.holway at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 10:21:23 GMT 2010
> +441179090901 This works everywhere. On 23 Nov 2010, at 15:07, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote: > Hi collective brain, > > Once again I found myself on a website today looking up the phone number of someone on my iPhone and went to click on the number to dial only for it to fail as it was listed as +44 (0)117 xxx yyyy and the phone tried to dial +440117xxxyyyy which obviously failed as you have to drop the 0 if you use the country code. > > Anyone know what best practice with this is? I notice our own website doing the same. Do you think I should just put the number down as +441179090901 and assume uk callers add the zero? Or have the zero and hope international users drop the zero. Or list both? > > I could list it as 0117 9090901 and then uk smart phones are fine, but international will fail. > > -Matt > > > -- > underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/underscore