[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0019123]: international characters in CALLERID(name) should not be escape encoded (for legacy hardware)

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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=19123 
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Reported By:                test011
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   19123
Category:                   Functions/func_callerid
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     acknowledged
Asterisk Version:           1.8.3.2 
JIRA:                        
Regression:                 No 
Reviewboard Link:            
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2011-04-14 21:00 CDT
Last Modified:              2011-04-18 17:14 CDT
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Summary:                    international characters in CALLERID(name) should
not be escape encoded (for legacy hardware)
Description: 
8bit characters in CALLERID(name) should not be escape encoded. (cf.
%38%EA)

This is closely tied with client hardware devices' capability. You cannot
just have it another way without any legacy support.

I am not even sure there is any client hardware that supports this kind of
encoding/decoding. (No, actually I am very sure that there is none in the
market can decodes escaped international characters in CallerID display)

Majority of devices support displaying non-encoded characters but can't
decode escaped characters, they are doomed as for now. Please put a legacy
support (CALLERID pre-1.8 behavior concerning charset encoding which is 'no
encoding')

I know there are some devices that do not ring if international characters
are present in CALLERID(name) Since they usually don't support UTF-8 or
escaped decoding either, new feature in CALLERID is still useless and there
are legacy ways to deal with such devices.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2011-04-18 17:14 lmadsen        Description Updated                          
2011-04-18 17:14 lmadsen        Additional Information Updated                  
 
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