I do have a state in my postal address, and if I have to enter my address as 47374 Richmond instead of Richmond IN 47374, it will probably go to Virginia first, and maybe they'll get it to me eventually.
Just saying. Internationalism is hard. If you want to go for the global market, it would behoove you to try to do it right.
Books in German. Also contact information as a freelancer for translation agencies, who really should know better (but their Web designers often don't). But your joke was very funny.
Absolutely — which is I would recommend providing multi-line edit boxes for addresses.
That way you can enter your address any way you see fit. You really know best how to address mail so that it gets to you, why would I want to pretend I know better?
So you have a strong AI doing natural-language parsing to figure out from that freeform address whether you need to charge sales tax/VAT?
If you're doing business across state/province or national borders, getting that structured address data (and getting it right) can be awfully important.
Seems like the easiest solution would be for web developers to show the address in their country's format, if their customer is from their country, and to show a textarea box for anyone else.
It works very well for me. Provided the goal of the address field is to copy/paste it verbatim to an envelope - if you want to actually understand the different parts of the address this might be counterproductive.
(yeah, this works both ways)
I do have a state in my postal address, and if I have to enter my address as 47374 Richmond instead of Richmond IN 47374, it will probably go to Virginia first, and maybe they'll get it to me eventually.
Just saying. Internationalism is hard. If you want to go for the global market, it would behoove you to try to do it right.