POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Really? : Re: Really? Server Time
29 Jul 2024 00:26:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Really?  
From: clipka
Date: 12 Sep 2014 22:25:36
Message: <5413ab20$1@news.povray.org>
Am 13.09.2014 01:59, schrieb Jim Henderson:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:36:25 -0400, Saul Luizaga wrote:
>
>> yy yyyy running out implement yyy yyyy your number is 12 3456 new number
>> 012 3456 publish nation wide daily for a week: just fill out with zeros
>> to your left.
>> problem solved.
>
> Except that '0' as a phone number prefix has special meaning in various
> places around the world.
>
> If I start a call in the US here with "011" (actually, now I think of it,
> that may be a global thing), that means it's an international call.

It's not a global thing; the prefix to dial out to the world differs 
between countries. For instance, here in Germany (and actually quite a 
lot of other countries) it is "00". Hence the convention to write down 
international numbers with a "+" instead.


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