[Asterisk-Dev] Alphanumeric Extensions Proposal Comments

[Brian West]

I'm still trying to come up with a better solution in my mind.... its  
maddening to go over all this info and see what could be the best way...

Because when you stop and think about it regexp on the exten portion  
would be nice on both alpha and numeric extension types.

/b

On May 2, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Michael Giagnocavo wrote:

> In response to Olle and Leif's proposal:
>
> http://edvina.net/asterisk/alphanumericextensions.pdf
>
> Starting with Asterisk dialplans being ASCII.. Why? Wouldn't that  
> make it
> relatively hard to use any other characters in Asterisk, if your  
> dialplan is
> so limited? I'd imagine we'd want the same format for other files  
> too. Thus,
> I don't understand how starting off with ASCII gets us going  
> anywhere good.
>
> The fact that some Caller ID implementations might use an old  
> encoding like
> ISO 8859-1 shouldn't determine how Asterisk handles things  
> internally. One
> of the nice things about Asterisk is that it's designed quite well  
> and aims
> to do things correctly, even when a lot of other surrounding  
> things, well,
> aren't done so well.
>
> Quite frankly, I think that Unicode is one thing that should just  
> be there,
> in the background, working. In the dialplan and elsewhere, we  
> shouldn't have
> to manipulate those strings any differently. Asterisk should use  
> Unicode all
> over, and when something needs a string in a different format, then  
> Asterisk
> converts. That'd keep a lot more in line with what Asterisk does  
> regarding
> other things (say, protocols and codecs) than making us (as users of
> Asterisk) worry about the details of certain protocols.
>
> -Michael
>
>
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