1.1.3 phone number format

[Ca$ul]

Hi all,

New member so hi everyone

I've been looking around to try and figure this one out, and even though the topic has been talked about several times, I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.

I live in London and travel very often to France. Half of my contacts actually are from France and have french mobiles. I know you can select the 'Region Format' in the 'Settings' > 'General' > 'International' menu, but this makes the rather dumb assumption that you will only have numbers of that region in your phone. The other problem I have is that the default formatting for UK numbers is pretty much equal to no formatting whatsoever 02072071234 (great ...)

I'm not exactly sure how the format pattern is used by the iPhone. My guess is that it tries to match what it currently has with the existing formats that are contained in the 'array' node of the selected region format.

From what I have found on the internet, the idea would be to update the 'uk' entry of the ABPhoneFormats.plist file to something like this :

<key>uk</key>
<array>
<string>0## - #### ####</string>
<string>0# #### ####</string>
<string>+44 ## #### ####</string>
<string>+33 # #### ####</string>
</array>

I don't know if this would work since I don't know how to access that file on my iPhone to update it ^^. Help on how I can do that would also be much appreciated.

Basically, how can I get both types of phone numbers to be formatted at the same time ?

Thanks,

O.