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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I'm okay with tangents because I love learning about formatting & cultural differences. I think it's fascinating!

And yeah that's interesting because here in the US, putting a hyphen in between each section is typically much more common. For example, we'd write 123-456-7890.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I think when I was much younger, in the 80s it was more common to use hyphens. But I think this was more when people wrote with a pen on paper.

On shop fronts and when printed, seems quite the rarity here I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How do you prevent overflow with line breaks without having to use   every single time, though? With a visible separator, there'd be no need for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think the ITU E.123 predates HTML by some years...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I meant currently. Lol.