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

["Mark Rogalski" <rogalski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Part of the purpose of this widget is to prevent the user from entering 
invalid data without requiring the app to do input validation itself.  As 
such, when a user is asked to enter a phone number he is likely to want to 
enter locale specific "white space" characters. However, there is also the 
chance that he'll want to enter an "out of country" phone number. Therefore, 
I think all possible valid phone number characters should be allowed 
regardless of locale.

For Hyperlink, you are right that a phone number is set to the widget in 
plain form and then displayed in a locale specific manner.

But the initial question is still unanswered... Should we allow  ( ) - /  to 
be entered?



"Gorkem Ercan" <gorkem.ercan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>I think the allowed characters are very much platform/device specific
> since the allowed characters may differ on different locales
> I think it is best to rely on the devices which are presumably optimized 
> for a specific locale would provide the best character set.
>
> Displaying a phone number in Hyperlink is very much locale specific as 
> well.
> For example, even the data at hand do not have it, platform can put 
> brackets around the area code for some locales while presenting it.
>
> Of course if  the underlying platform does not provide such native support 
> then it may become a tedious job to trying to accomodate all
> different locales but then this is still an implementation specific effort 
> and should not affect other implementations.
> --
> Gorkem
>
> "Mark Rogalski" <rogalski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> 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 are almost always used to make reading a number easier. The 
>> Hyperlink widget does display these characters. I think for consistency 
>> and usability we should add these as valid characters for ConstrainedText 
>> PhoneNumber style.
>>
>> 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 ConstrinedText Numeric and Decimal styles. For instance, 
>> "123,456.78". What do you think about this?
>>
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