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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In System Settings we refer to the locale setting as "Display language",
because that is 99% of its visible effect, and because calling it
anything that didn't use the word "language" (e.g. "Regional format")
would make it harder for people to find, especially since quite often
they won't know English that well.

It is handy to be able to set text-related settings for a particular
country all at once. For example, if you're in France you probably want
to set the short date format to dd/mm/yyyy, the thousands separator to a
space, and the decimal marker to a comma, all at once. Bug 1248349 is
about that.

But I cannot see how it would be a good idea for phone number format to
be switchable as part of those locale settings. The appropriate
formatting of a phone number depends on what country that number
resolves to, which depends on its country code and/or what country you
were in when you dialled it. It should not depend on what your locale
setting happened to be when you dialled it, and especially not on what
your locale setting happened to be at the moment you happened to look at
the call history! For that reason, this is not a System Settings bug,
and not a duplicate of bug 1248349.

Even if you disagree with that, though, while I'm not responsible for
the design of the phone app, it shouldn't be controversial that the call
history should show exactly the numbers you dialled, regardless of how
they are formatted.

** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
     Assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) => Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1447504

Title:
  [system settings] Dialer-app: Wrong number is shown in call history

Status in Dialer app for Ubuntu Touch:
  New
Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  arale, r180, ubuntu-touch/vivid-proposed

  Steps
  1. Launch dialer-app
  2. Input number a Chinese phone number, e.g. 18812345678, and dial
  3. End the call
  4. Review in call history
  =>
  The number is displayed as (881) 234-5678

  Expected:
  1) number should be complete whithout missing the leading "1"
  2) format should be like 188-1234-5678, or just 18812345678

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