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

["Mark Rogalski" <rogalski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, "+" is allowed now.   Is "/" a white space character (i.e. just used to 
make reading number easier)?


"Wolfgang Röckelein" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> 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