[Asterisk-Users] translate letters into digits

[Armin Schindler]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Tom Hayden wrote:
> Why do you need to write an application for this? Why don't you just
> make joe extension 563??

If I would need this for just 'JOE', than I could do that. But for
about 100 names, it's easier to have a mechism for it.

Armin
 
> --
> Tom
> 
> On 9/13/05, Armin Schindler <armin at melware.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was wondering if there is already an application or a simple
> > mechanism to convert the dialed extension into digits if letters were used.
> > I don't know if there is a name for that, I mean the letters on the phone
> > keypad: ABC=2, DEF=3, ...
> > 
> > So when I call e.g. JOE, the extension 563 shall be used.
> > 
> > Do I need to write my own little application to accomplish this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Armin
> > 
> > 
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