IMessage on Mac: country and region code?

Hi,
The Message app in Mac OS it's not working correctly, and I think it's because of the country and region code.
I can't send messages to the contact phone number (previously added to Contacts app) as I do on the iPhone, it says the number is not registered with iMessage. I have to manually type 5511 (my country and region code) before the phone number. I do not need to do this on the iPhone, all local phones have no code at all and are in the format ####-####.
Everything else works fine, the messages are even synced in both devices, but as the Mac OS app sees the sender's number with country and region code, it does not match any of my contacts in the Contacts app.
Is there any preference I need to set or any other way to resolve this?
Thanks!

HI,
Actually they are two different apps and the approaches are slightly different.
The iOS version can check if the recipient is also iMessages compatible and will switch to SMS if Not.
This means there are extra steps before iMessages are sent to the iMessages server for delivery.
The Mac version can tell you the recipient is not using iMessages but does not switch to SMS meaning the action is Local to the device and not at Server level.
As far as I can tell the iMessages server works on storing full international Numbers as an ID which is then linked to an Apple ID.
Obviously the numbers can vary in the number of digits with some countries only having one leading + digit (i.e America is +1) and others have longer (i.e. the UK is +44 and Brazil is +55)
In the UK different carriers are separated in the next four digits a bit like an area code.
I must admit that sometimes I select an Name and the choice for an iPhone Number in the Contacts part of adding a name to the "To" field and it tells me it does not like the number.
Clicking and holding the red box at the pointed arrow end shows me the alternatives and I can uses the same number in an acceptable format.
Part of this is what is "registered" as the number with the iMessages server compared to other places
What people registered and what you have in your Contacts info may be the same but I would think the iMessages servers are expecting a minimum number of digits.
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