[asterisk-users] Langugae issue

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:16:00PM +0200, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 30.03.2008, 09:54 -0400 schrieb Mike Trest - Personal:
> > Ayman,
> > 
> > One solution is to write an AGI scrip to parse the number and read
> > back in Arabic semantic order.  for the last two digits and for
> > certain special numbers like 11 , 100 , 1000, ... .    I must bring
> > out my old Arabic language books to do this myself, but if you will
> > share the language files with the asterisk group, then  I will make an
> > example AGI for you that we can share with the list.
> > 
> > If you are agreeable, let us  continue EMAIL messages privately until
> > we have something working that we can share with the list.
> > 
> > ..mike..
> 
> Dear Mike,
> 
> for me it seems that this is what say.conf is good for:
> http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.6.0/configs/say.conf.sample?revision=105596&view=markup
> (which seems to be considered the "new" format).
> 
> Perhaps it would be better to implement Arabic there than by means of an
> AGI script. Be sure to check with the developers wether this will be
> relevant for Asterisk 1.4 or if you need to go with 1.6 SVN to benefit.

say.conf works nicely for some languages. I was not able to make
something useful enough with its syntax for Hebrew, and from the little
I know of Arabic syntax, it will share the same problem. 

One basic problem is that there's no gender-form parameter anywhere in
the interface.

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