Re: Problem finding telephonenumber in a plain numeric search when number is stored with special characters

[Peter Marschall <peter@adpm.de>]

On Monday, 29. August 2005 17:00, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Pierangelo Masarati writes:
> >Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> >>Michael Ströder writes:
> >>>Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> >>>>I wouldn't find that weird for an APPROX matchingRule to
> >>>>turn aphas into digits for comparison.
> >>>
> >>>Are you sure that this alpha-digit-translation is always the
> >>>same in every country?
> >>
> >>What alpha-digit-translation? :-)
> >
> > You may have noted on your dialer those letters written in tiny
> > fonts on the digit keys... ;)
>

The translation table is (at least on the phones that I have seen so far ;-):
abc -> 2
def -> 3
ghi -> 4
jkl -> 5
mno -> 6
pqrs -> 7
tuv -> 8
wxyz -> 9

The translation is done automagically by pressing the button with the letter 
engraved.
It is mostly used for vanity numbers.

Peter

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