Different countries/regions formats in same Contacts List??

Does anyone know if it's possible to change the "formatting" of an individual contact's address / telephone information so that it appears in the country's format where that contact is / lives?
I know I can change the global format of Contacts, i.e.: to US or France or the UK / Where-ever but that really doesn't work well when you have world wide contacts with probably quite a few different address and 'phone number formats.
I'm finding it hard to have for example a French phone number that should be displayed like: 00-00-00-00-00 but instead in my US formatted Contacts it displays as 0000000000. Addresses / city /region formats are also hard to fit into US format. If I change the global to France it displays correctly those addresses etc of course, but everywhere else other than France gets messed up.
Seems odd that Apple wouldn't have sorted this, after all it's normal to have contacts worldwide that one needs to record.
Any ideas? Is the choice of format there in Contacts somewhere I've yet to find?

Ok, found it, click on the address type (Home, Work etc) and you can select address format.

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We have 3 phones. Myself, my husband and my daughters. We just recently went from me and my husband having Iphone 4's to iphone 5s. When we had the 4's we shared contacts and the calendar. We run a business and it just made sense to have it accessible whether we were on the phone, mac or ipad. Then when we upgraded, we gave our daughter my old iphone 4. Immediately all **** broke loose. We now have some, but not all of our contacts. We also have some of our daughter's contacts. For example, I had my husband saved as ICE with some info in the contact itself, like DOB. This contact is GONE. On both of our phones, in the recent calls the contacts are saved like my daughter's contact list so it says "DAD" not ICE.
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