Q: Which charater sets does AddressDoctor support?
A: AddressDoctor supports the following character sets:
UTF-32 Big Endian Unicode
UTF-32 Little Endian Unicode
UTF-16 Big Endian Unicode
UTF-16 Little Endian Unicode
UTF-8 Unicode
UCS-4 Big Endian Unicode
UCS-4 Little Endian Unicode
UCS-2 Big Endian Unicode
UCS-2 Little Endian Unicode
ISO 8859-1 (Latin_1 - Western Europe)
ISO 8859-2 (Latin_2 - Eastern Europe)
ISO 8859-3 (Latin_3 - Southeastern Europe)
ISO 8859-4 (Latin_4 - Scandinavia/Baltic)
ISO 8859-5 (Cyrillic - Russia, Ukraine)
ISO 8859-6 (Arabic)
ISO 8859-7 (Greek)
ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew)
ISO 8859-9 (Latin_5 - Turkey)
ISO 8859-10 (Latin_6 - Nordic)
ISO 8859-15
IBM 437 (US)
IBM 850 (Multilingual Latin I)
IBM 851 (Latin II)
IBM 855 (Cyrillic)
IBM 857 (Turkish)
IBM 862 (Hebrew)
WIN 1250 (Central Europe - Windows code page)
WIN 1251 (Cyrillic - Windows code page)
WIN 1252 (Latin I - Windows code page)
WIN 1253 (Greek - Windows code page)
WIN 1254 (Turkish - Windows code page)
WIN 1255 (Hebrew - Windows code page)
WIN 1256 (Arabic - Windows code page)
WIN 1257 (Baltic - Windows code page)
Big5 (Traditional Chinese)
Shift-JIS (Japanese)
GBK (Simplified Chinese)
UHC (Korean Unified Hangul)
ASCII (ISO646-US)
EBCDIC (IBM standard 037)
Q: Which alphabets does AddressDoctor support?
A: AddressDoctor supports the following alphabets:
Transliteration of various Latin code page characters ISO 8859-X to Latin (Eastern and Northern European alphabets)
Greek (BGN/PCGN 1962, ISO 843 ? 1997)
Cyrillic (BGN/PCGN 1947, ISO 9 ? 1995)
Hebrew
Japanese Kana and Kanji
Chinese Pinyin for Mandarin and Cantonese
Korean Hangul
Q: Is the province information returned by AddressDoctor using the ISO standard?
A: Province information (defined as State, Kanton, Prefecture, Province, Bundesland or County depending on the country) is returned as typically used by the postal operator in the respective country. In most cases postal administrations define a complete list of abbreviations to be used for addressing.
Q: I receive bad results when validating my addresses. What can be the reason for this?
A: Unfortunately, it may happen that the result of address cleaning is not satisfactory. The five most common reasons for this are
Incorrect Field assignment
Input data is missing too much information
Necessary fields have not been assigned
Too many unnecessary fields have been assigned
Corrupt input data