A project I am woking on requires me to display lots of postal addresses for many countries. All of the addresses are entered into a common template. But displaying this info in the correct format for a given country is a problem. Each country has it's own format and I want to be geographically correct in the way it is displayed. Many countries use a similar format

address 1
address 2
address 3
city, (state or province) postal code
country

But I am finding some countries that use a different order:

address 1
address 2
address 3
city postal code, country

address 1
address 2
address 3
postal code city, country

I'm sure that each country has it's own standard address format. Has anybody found a module that incorporates all this logic? So given a country name (or country code) the module outputs the correct format?

Also if any of you have the address for the Taliban in Afghanistan, please give it to me, I'd like to send them a big punch in the mouth.

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In reply to Foreign Postal Addresses by aardvark

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