[news.eclipse.technology.ercp] Re: ConstrainedText questions

[Wolfgang Röckelein <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Mark Rogalski wrote:
> It seems the ConstrainedText PhoneNumber style does not allow a few "white 
> space"  characters which are typically used for North American phone 
> numbers. These are "(", ")", and "-". They have no meaning for dialers but 

In Germany sometimes "/" is also used.

Also do you allow a "+" currently?

> Also, less of an issue but still something that we should consider, is that 
> a user may wish to use "white space" numeric separators like "," in the 
> ConstrainedText Numeric and Decimal styles. For instance, "123,456.78".  What 
> do you think about this? 

I would disallow this, since it adds considerable confusion in countries 
where the two symbol are used the other way round (eg germany).

Regards,
  Wolfgang