diff --git a/openerp/addons/base/res/res_partner.py b/openerp/addons/base/res/res_partner.py
index 7221500de09..8a3d43be3cc 100644
--- a/openerp/addons/base/res/res_partner.py
+++ b/openerp/addons/base/res/res_partner.py
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ class format_address(object):
                 doc = etree.fromstring(arch)
                 for node in doc.xpath("//div[@class='address_format']"):
                     tree = etree.fromstring(v % {'city': _('City'), 'zip': _('ZIP'), 'state': _('State')})
+                    for child in node.xpath("//field"):
+                        if child.attrib.get('modifiers'):
+                            for field in tree.xpath("//field[@name='%s']" % child.attrib.get('name')):
+                                field.attrib['modifiers'] = child.attrib.get('modifiers')
                     node.getparent().replace(node, tree)
                 arch = etree.tostring(doc)
                 break