[asterisk-users] German date format in voicemail emails

[Klaus Darilion]

Philipp Kempgen schrieb:
> Klaus Darilion schrieb:
>> I want to configure voicemail to send emails with the date of the 
>> message in German/Austria, that means:
>>
>> "Montag, 26 Jänner 2009" instead of "Monday, 26 January 2009"
>>
>> voicemail.conf refers to "man strftime". This refers to the current locales.
>>
>> So, I tried
>>    export LANG=de
>>    export LC_ALL=de_DE
>> before starting Asterisk. Unfortunately the date format is still in English.
>>
>> Any hints how to achieve the German language date format?
> 
> Do you have these locales installed?
> And what's the default locale on your system?

Meanwhile yes :-)

> Debian:
> aptitude install locales
> dpkg-reconfigure locales
> (Locales to be generated: check the ones you want to install)
> (Default locale for the system environment: e.g. de_DE.UTF-8)
> 
> However I'm not sure if that helps. Maybe Asterisk always uses
> the C locale to expand emaildateformat.

I tried setting the locale in app_voicemail manually (ported from 
minivm) and then it works.

But now I try setting it in the environment before starting Asterisk, 
but that does not work .....

klaus