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> All's well until the third item down, with numbers-
>
>                        00 23 58                         17 45 00
> Then, on that line, and that line alone, the formatting, as shown on
> Firefox, has been quite lost (sorry, I can't reproduce that here). Instead,
> the numbers are written, out-of-column, close-packed in pairs, within a
> blue cartouche which also shows a telephone symbol. Hovering the mouse over
> it brings up a note stating it to be a phone number in Chad! If clicked on,
> maybe somebody's phone, in Chad, would ring...

George:

Here's a htm file that neatly demonstrates the problem





My phone number is (608) 123-4567
Chad 00 23 58  17 45 00



Supposedly adding



to the header is supposed to turn off Skype number recognition but the
discussion at

http://www.mail-archive.com/wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg40916.html

indicates this is broken in Skype 4.2, the version I have so I can not
test it.

Be aware there are a number of other 'crawlers' that can introduce
similar problems.

There is a huge amount of discussion on this issue on the web.

Mike

   

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