Characters and symbols allowed in shipping and billing address?

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ProgZi picture ProgZi · Jun 22, 2016 · Viewed 43.7k times · Source

What characters and symbols are allowed in shipping, billing, physical address?

First/Last name: Letters, space
Address: Letters, numbers, space and # ' . , - /
City: Letters, space and -
Postal: Numbers, letters, space and -

Answer

Al Mills picture Al Mills · Jun 22, 2016

Allow all of them! Especially when you take in personal names and organisations.

  • Marsh & Parsons
  • Apt # 5
  • 651 1/2 main street
  • Westward Ho!
  • Renées Bakery
  • Toys 'R' Us

If you only allow certain characters, you are only going to frustrate your end users.

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