[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0014333]: [patch] add option to configure locale for date/time string construction

Mon Feb 2 05:59:15 CST 2009

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14333 
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Reported By:                klaus3000
Assigned To:                Corydon76
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   14333
Category:                   Applications/app_voicemail/NewFeature
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
Asterisk Version:           SVN 
Regression:                 No 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!): 169203 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2009-01-26 07:35 CST
Last Modified:              2009-02-02 05:59 CST
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Summary:                    [patch] add option to configure locale for date/time
string construction
Description: 
Hi!

When voicemail sends emails it constructs the date/time when the
voicemessage was received. This patch allows to configure the locale for
generation of the string.

locale=de_AT.UTF-8 results in

"Montag, 26 Jänner 2009" instead of "Monday, 26 January 2009".

This could also be achieved setting the default OS locale - but this would
also change the locale of all other date/time strings in Asterisk
(logmesage, CDRs...) which can be bad.
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 (0099211) klaus3000 (reporter) - 2009-02-02 05:59
 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14333#c99211 
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Not sure what you mean with linked list. I would write an
ast_strftime_locale(....., locale_t locale) function which sets/resets the
locale before/after strftime.

The locale will be created by the module (e.g. app_voicemail) during
module load.

So, what for is the linked list?

Further, I  have not fully understand the concept of freeing the memory
(bad documentation). resetting the locale with uselocale(LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE)
returns a locale which holds the previous locale. My tests showed that
uselocale points to the same locale multiple times - thus freeing this
memory may cause problem when it is freed in mutliple modules. 

Issue History 
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2009-02-02 05:59 klaus3000      Note Added: 0099211                          
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