[asterisk-dev] why does Dial() not inhert the language setting to the outgoing channel?

[Klaus Darilion]

Russell Bryant schrieb:
> Klaus Darilion wrote:
>> When Dial() sets up a new outgoing channel, the language setting of the 
>> incoming channel is not copied to the outgoing channel (at least with 
>> 1.6.1.9).
>>
>> Is there a specific reason for this? To me this looks like a bug.
> 
> Is the caller's language a direct indicator of the callee's language?

No, but probably in most cases caller and callee should speak a common 
language :-)

> I
> don't think it is, and that's why the code behaves this way.  There is
> an argument to be made for each method being default behavior, but I
> think having it _not_ inherited makes more sense.
> 
> For known devices, the callee language is set in the device
> configuration.  In other cases, if an admin would like to make this
> behavior the default, I would recommend doing it by running a macro on
> the callee's channel. 

IMO that's a bit cumbersome, but would work.

 >  We should document this ... somewhere.

Yes. What about adding it as a note to the Dial() application?

klaus