Re: How to deal with a phone number field ?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 12:59 -0200, Arq. Maximiliano Meilán wrote:
> Confirmed with Glom 1.8.5, Ubuntu 8.10
> When reach the seven digit, Glom leaves the decimal format.
> Aritmetical operations works fine, even using diferent formats.
>
>
> El mar, 20-01-2009 a las 18:25 -0200, Kurt Kraut escribió:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to build a personal contact database, with fields like
> > Name, Address, E-mail, Phone Number, Cell phone etc. I'd like to allow
> > only numbers to be typed in the 'Phone number'

That's unwise. + is a meaningful part of many phone numbers. And people
really like using spaces and brackets.

>  (to avoid typos and
> > future incompatabilities)  field. Unfortunately, when I input phone
> > numbers like '12345678' it is converted to '1.23457e+07'.

That's not nice regardless of whether it's for a phone number, so I'll
investigate. Please open a bug if I forget.

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