Is there a standard for phone numbers?

Question

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• Is there a standard for storing normalized phone numbers

Answer 1

There is a lot of local countries standards. On one of my projects I had the same problem. Solved as:

1. In DB everything stored as numbers: 123456789
2. Depending on selected web page language, this number pre-formatted when page loads.

Examples:

• France, Luxemburg format phone numbers like 12.34.56.78.90 or 12 34 56 78 90
• Germany: 123 45 67 or 123-45-67
• Great Britain: 020 1234 1234 or 1234 01234 12345
• Italy, Netherlands: 12 1234567 or 020-1234567
• CIS countries: 123 123-45-67