[freeside] internationalization Specifically Australia

David Uzzell david at uzzell.com.au
Wed Oct 8 03:50:46 PDT 2003


Looks like no one knows with the recent version of freeside :(

I can´t seem to find were the DB´s are called for their lengths.

Thanks Anyways

David

David Uzzell wrote:
> Running Freeside 1.4.1 on Mandrake 9.1 Apache 1.3.28 mod_perl 1.28 
> (finally gave apache2 away as a bad joke! :( )
> 
> I have searched back through the mailling list and have found some 
> information and some ways to change the DB´s etc for different phone 
> numbers and different States and different post codes and stuff like 
> that but it all relates to WAY back in 99 :( and some of the files that 
> they make mention of to update/change to allow for different feild 
> lengths don´t seem to be there in the current version like dbdef.pm 
> unless it has changed name to something a little closely related.
> 
> The things that I am intrested in direction on how to update are;
> 1) post codes as all of our Australian codes are 4 digits like 2222
> 2) States like NSW, SA, QLD, NT, ACT, VIC, TAS, WA
> 3) POP Dial-in number now being australia wide single call number 
> like             0198 XXX XXX
> 4)10% GST on everything. I must admit I have not moved into this to much 
> so there may be a way to get it to work without anychange but it is 
> something that Australian internationalization needs.
> 
> There may be other things that Australia needs that are slightly 
> different which I have missed but at this point not that I can think of!
> 
> I am not very good at hard coding but I am willing to give it a go to 
> get it working if someone wants to point me the correct direction of the 
> files and configs that I would need to change to make this work! I would 
> be happy to supply these changes back so that others could make use of 
> them!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David Uzzell
> 





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