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Re: use of the plus sign

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Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > NY wrote:
> >> Lars Enderin wrote:
> >>> NY wrote:
> >>>> I wonder if there are any other countries which start all their national
> >>>> area codes with a digit which *must* be dialled for calls within that
> >>>> country and which *must not* be dialled for calls from outside that
> >>>> country.
> >>>
> >>> Swedish area codes start with a zero inside Sweden.
> >>
> >> What advice is given to Swedish people about quoting phone numbers so they 
> >> can be dialled both from within and outside Sweden? Do they put the 0 in 
> >> brackets or do they list two formats of the number? I'm interested whether 
> >> they solve the problem in the same way as the UK does. 
> > 
> > Same problem and same solution (0 in brackets) in The Netherlands.
> 
> Which problem? The notation +31 (0)10 1234567 is ITU-approved:
> https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-E.123-200102-I!!PDF-E&type=items
> (items 7.1, 7.2)
> https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-E.123-200102-I!!PDF-S&type=items
> for Carlos ;-)

  The point isn't that it isn't approved/standardized/<whatever>. The
point is that it is confusing/error-prone/ambiguous/irritating/<whatever>.

  OTOH, I initially planned to put scare quotes around "problem" - i.e.
'problem' -, because for *me*, it's a non-problem. But as my gran said:
"It's not all about you, Frank!" :-)

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  Re: use of the plus sign Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-01-29 10:05 +0000
    Re: use of the plus sign Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-01-29 10:11 +0000
      Re: use of the plus sign micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2019-01-29 06:55 -0500
    Re: use of the plus sign "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2019-02-01 10:45 +0000
      Re: use of the plus sign Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2019-02-01 12:07 +0100
        Re: use of the plus sign "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2019-02-01 11:54 +0000
          Re: use of the plus sign micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2019-02-01 10:17 -0500
          Re: use of the plus sign Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-02-01 15:28 +0000
            Re: use of the plus sign "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2019-02-01 16:58 +0000
              Re: use of the plus sign Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-02-01 17:29 +0000
              Re: use of the plus sign "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-02-01 18:53 +0100
                Re: use of the plus sign "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2019-02-01 18:05 +0000
                Re: use of the plus sign "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-02-01 19:59 +0100
              Re: use of the plus sign Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-02-01 21:09 +0000
                Re: use of the plus sign Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2019-02-01 22:08 +0000
                Re: use of the plus sign micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2019-02-02 00:21 -0500
                Re: use of the plus sign Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2019-02-02 09:23 +0000
                Re: use of the plus sign "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-02-01 23:22 +0100
                Re: use of the plus sign Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2019-02-02 19:27 +0000
            Re: use of the plus sign Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2019-02-01 21:58 +0000
            Re: use of the plus sign Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2019-02-02 11:12 +0100
              Re: use of the plus sign Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-02-02 18:04 +0000
              Re: use of the plus sign Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-02-02 18:12 +0000
              Re: use of the plus sign "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2019-02-02 19:52 +0000
                Re: use of the plus sign nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-02-02 15:23 -0500
      Re: use of the plus sign "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-02-01 14:00 +0100
  Re: use of the plus sign "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-29 13:20 +0100
    Re: use of the plus sign micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2019-01-30 07:51 -0500
  Re: use of the plus sign Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> - 2019-01-29 13:54 +0000
  Re: use of the plus sign Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2019-01-29 18:00 +0100
  Re: use of the plus sign Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2019-02-02 07:34 +1300

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