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# Phone number handling defaults changed in release v2.0.19

With the release of SCA v2.0.19 we changed the default setting regarding phone number handling in favor for our international customers.

Until the release of SCA v2.0.19, the default setting for the automatic completion of [invalid telephone numbers](/documentation/valid-phone-numbers-for-sca.md) ([PhoneNumberParseCountryCode\_Option](/documentation/app-configuration-policy-name-values-for-sca/sca-configuration-seccontacts.defaults.md#appearance-and-functions)) was set to `DE` (Germany)

If set to `DE` SCA attempts to complete every telephone number that [is NOT in international format](/documentation/valid-phone-numbers-for-sca.md) with a German area code. This default set to `DE` is only usefull for German customers. 

So in SCA v2.0.19 we changed it to `false` which is the recommended value of this setting now. \
More on this topic [please see here](/documentation/valid-phone-numbers-for-sca.md).

## Are you affected?

You are NOT affected by this change if you are an international customer OR if you have already explicitly set [PhoneNumberParseCountryCode\_Option](/documentation/app-configuration-policy-name-values-for-sca/sca-configuration-seccontacts.defaults.md#appearance-and-functions).<br>

You may be affected by this change if you are a German customer AND if you have NOT explicitly set [PhoneNumberParseCountryCode\_Option](/documentation/app-configuration-policy-name-values-for-sca/sca-configuration-seccontacts.defaults.md#appearance-and-functions). \
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In this case, simply set [PhoneNumberParseCountryCode\_Option](/documentation/app-configuration-policy-name-values-for-sca/sca-configuration-seccontacts.defaults.md#appearance-and-functions) explicitly to `“DE”`.


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