A.12. Addresses

Address formats differ greatly from country to country. When an address is represented as just a text field it is easy to pass back and forth but often servers will store address information in separate fields (e.g. Street, City, Country, Postal Code) therefore when working with a device that expects things all in one label this information must be merged together. If it is then modified on the device it is important that server side the representation remains intact. Address formatting for majority of Asian countries will typically require more than one address field. Some software implementation allows for two fields (e.g. Address1 and Address2) to allow the extra information to be entered and rendered where as others provide a single Address field. It may be helpful to provide guidelines on how to handle these occurrences which are extremely common for Asian addresses.