Address order run amok

[Bongo]

I have a perfectly normal address:

Fukoku Seimei Building, 5th Floor
2-2-2 Uchisaiwaicho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100
Japan

Outlook automatically parses this as:

Street: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100
City: 2-2-2 Uchisaiwaicho
State/Province: Fukoku Seimei Building, 5th Floor
Country/Region: Japan

If I change the fields in a way to make the city equal to Tokyo, then Tokyo
comes out on top (which is not the standard for foreign langauge addresses in
Japan. I get similar problems with Hong Kong. Generally, Outlook seems to
think that it knows the way addresses should be written, but is far afield of
convention.

Is there any way (including jury-rigging registry settings or otherwise) to
change Outlook's behavior regarding address parsing / formatting?

Tx & rgds

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Bongo,

As far as I know, there is no way to change it.

I do know that if I fail to specify the Country, it accepts your
example address, but assumes that I mean Australia. If I then
go back and specify Japan, Outlook turns the address block
UPSIDEDOWN:

100
Tokyo
Chiyoda-ku
Fukoku Seimei Building, 5th Floor
2-2-2 Uchisaiwaicho
Japan

This happens to be the correct format for Japanese addresses
WRITTEN IN JAPANESE!

See: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2224.html

You will also note that it is NOT the correct format for Japanese
addresses written in English.

Damned if you do...........

 

[Bongo]

So it seems that there is a country-specific (relating to the country of the
address, rather than country where user is) rather than country+script /
country+langauge specific algorithm . . .

Does anyone know of a way to thwart this uniformity, or to simply change the
defaults? Are they configurable (say, with registry or settings file
manipulation), or are they compiled in?

 

[homeLAN]

But if you enter the address info directly in the "Check Address" dialog box,
it will work correctly, won't it?

 

[Bongo]

No, just the opposite: Entering the fields into the dialog produces the
undesired behavior.

Office Outlook 2003 (11.6359.6408) SP1 is the version, by the way.

 

[Pat Garard]

They seem to be hard-coded!

 

[homeLAN]

Well, this doesn't solve your immediate problem, but you could send an email
to the Outlook team to see if the problem can be rectified in a future update
or version: outwish (at) microsoft (dot) com