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Subject:Re: telephone number formats From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 27 May 1998 11:01:41 -0700
At 10:13 AM 5/27/98 -0400, Kelly Schrank wrote:
>>From what I've seen in dealing with other countries, there are no
>dashes, just spaces between.
>
>For example:
>
>03 98 76 54
>
>03 being country code
>98, 76, and 54 being the rest of the phone number
>
This sounds right to me. FWIW, a good general resource on writing for an
international audience is Mary A. DeVries' _Internationally Yours: Writing
and Communicating Successfully in Today's Global Marketplace_. The emphasis
is more on business communication, but there's lots of good info on cultural
considerations, ethnic groups, etc.
--Wayne
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