This piece is inspired by this post on daringfireball, which, in turn, was inspired by AP’s style guide on phone numbers.

Their post is about where parenthesis goes in phone numbers. I don’t care much about that. What I care about is the fact that there is an international standard for phone numbers that they’re not using.

For international numbers use 011 (from the United States), the country code, the city code and the telephone number: 011-44-20-7535-1515.