International Formatting

International Formatting

 

For my International Formatting lesson I chose Lesson 83 which was France. I chose France because I was still very similar the United States formatting. The main difference I saw was that they use codes called the IDD ( International Direct Dialing) code. When using this you dial the IDD first, then you dial the country code for the country you want to call. After that you dial the area code if there is one, then the telephone number, which if you ask me is a lot of numbers just to call someone. I think another interesting concept about France and how they do their phone numbers is instead of inserting a hyphen between the area code and the phone number they use decimals, this is not that complicated.

 

The dates they use are the same as the United Sates they are just changed around in the sequence for example: today is October 11, 2013 ( in France it is 11 October 2013).

 

France seems to me like it has the most simple and closest way of formatting things to the U.S. than any of the other countries and it would not be hard to adjust to this type of formatting.

 

Below is an example of what the IDD looks like. You can also visit http://www.idd.com.au/telephone-country-codes.php and find all of the IDD codes for each country.