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A comment on Google's phone number handling library.

Re:Google's phone number handling library by jackocnr on Friday November 07, 2014 @04:54PM (#8574839)
Ha, good to see this here - so incredibly useful, and already ported to lots of useful languages. Handling phone numbers gets messy really quickly: formatting/validation for national/international numbers, in different forms (land-line/mobile/premium etc), in hundreds of different countries... These guys have done a great job, and are also super responsive/helpful when you raise issues.

A word of warning: if you ever set out to handle international numbers in a web frontend - you may think "it can't be that hard - maybe take me a couple of hours" (like me), then do yourself a favour and save yourself a week of unexpected work and use the jQuery plugin that I ended up creating (I don't understand why this didn't already exist) which uses libphonenumber for all the magic: https://github.com/Bluefieldscom/intl-tel-input. Hope it saves you some time.

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Re:Google's phone number handling library by umanwizard on Saturday November 08, 2014 @12:17AM (#8576108)
Looks awesome; will consider using this in the future.

One note: it would be nice if you explicitly stated, in the LICENSE file or the readme, that this is under the MIT license. It'd make it easier to use this at companies (like mine) where open source packages can only be used if their license is on a legal-department-approved whitelist.

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Re:Google's phone number handling library by srik on Saturday November 08, 2014 @08:34AM (#8576821)
What other licenses are usually on that list?
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Re:Google's phone number handling library by jackocnr on Saturday November 08, 2014 @11:29PM (#8579109)
Done.
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Re:Google's phone number handling library by jypepin on Friday November 07, 2014 @09:19PM (#8575764)
I did phone numbers validation in the front end, and I yes the expected couple hours ended up being multiple days of works and I ended up using google's validator!

thanks for the jquery plugin, I'll definitely keep it in mind!

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Re:Google's phone number handling library by ceejayoz on Friday November 07, 2014 @07:11PM (#8575368)
That looks amazing.
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Re:Google's phone number handling library by thesumofall on Friday November 07, 2014 @07:28PM (#8575440)
Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!
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Re:Google's phone number handling library by XtianThrowaway on Saturday November 08, 2014 @03:30AM (#8576356)
Please make this a node package at some point.
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Re:Google's phone number handling library by ruimarinho on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @02:44PM (#8597688)
I have created a node package a couple of months ago which I regularly keep up-to-date with the latest upstream changes. It exports everything that the javascript version of libphonenumber offers. You can check it at http://seegno.github.io/google-libphonenumber/.
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