CallerID to FXS (RE: [asterisk-users] SendText() question)

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Leo Ann Boon wrote:
> Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
>> Leo Ann Boon wrote:
>>> Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
>>>> You should not have quotes in Caller*ID info.  MOST devices will 
>>>> just ignore the quotes, but a few will refuse to accept Caller*ID 
>>>> with quotes in it.  At least one revision of SIP firmware for Cisco 
>>>> phones does this.
>>> Thanks for the heads up. On the other hand, there are devices that 
>>> will treat everything as the number if you omit the quotes. So you'll 
>>> get gibberish on the phone.
>>
>> I've never seen one.
> Tell that to my cheap analog caller id phone :) BTW, the sample 
> zapata.conf in Asterisk also have the caller id names quoted. Maybe Mark 
> can enlighten us :)

Since the telco never sends quotes on PSTN calls, I can't imagine how 
this could be the case.  Remember, in most cases, quotes in Asterisk 
config files are considered part of the value.  So if you did a 
callerid="Robert Dobbs" <5556661212> and then did a Noop($CALLERIDNAME) 
you would see ""Robert Dobbs"" on the Asterisk CLI.

Maybe 1.2 and later silently strip off the quotes.