How can Hong Kong addresses be displayed correctly in Contacts?

The address format used in China is the reverse of that used in the West, with the country displayed first and with the street address on the last line. Hong Kong is politically part of China, but uses the Western address format. Unfortunately, on upgrading to Mountain Lion all addresses showing Hong Kong as the Country were arbitrarily assigned the Chinese address format resulting in them displaying upside down. Apple needs to eliminate this.


One can manually correct wrongly displayed addresses by changing an individual address format to a non-Chinese format, but why should we have to do this to correct a mistake by Apple?

Mini, iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4), iPhone

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 7:45 PM

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Dec 13, 2016 11:51 AM in response to Ditchdiver

I'm aware of the problem but was not really annoyed until now that the formatting problem made me unable to use ApplePay. The online store using ApplePay is being very strict about the formatting of the shipping addresses and all the addresses in my contact card, written in English and being formatted in US format to avoid looking in reverse order if they are filled in the default Hong Kong (Chinese) format, cannot be recognised by ApplePay so all transactions were denied (with that horrible red exclamation mark). Apple must solve this problem now otherwise their ApplePay business is gonna suffer. A lot of Hong Kong people like filling in purchasing orders in English rather than Chinese.

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