[asterisk-users] Cannot figure out pound key in qwerty keyboard

[michael k]

The CLI output after input the passcode.

After pressing pound key Shift-3 (#) I am getting CLI output as "User
cancelled message by pressing 0" .  Any suggestions ?


<SIP/199-000000d1> Playing 'vm-password.ulaw' (language 'en')
    -- <SIP/199-000000d1> Playing 'vm-youhave.ulaw' (language 'en')
    -- <SIP/199-000000d1> Playing 'vm-no.ulaw' (language 'en')
    -- <SIP/199-000000d1> Playing 'vm-messages.ulaw' (language 'en')
    -- <SIP/199-000000d1> Playing 'vm-opts.ulaw' (language 'en')
    -- <SIP/199-000000d1> Playing 'vm-options.ulaw' (language 'en')
    -- Recording the message
    -- <SIP/199-000000d1> Playing 'vm-rec-unv.ulaw' (language 'en')
    -- <SIP/199-000000d1> Playing 'beep.ulaw' (language 'en')
    -- x=0, open writing:
/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/199/unavail.tmp format: wav49,
0x78a53d8
    -- x=1, open writing:
/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/199/unavail.tmp format: wav, 0x7917ad8
    -- User cancelled message by pressing 0
    -- <SIP/199-000000d1> Playing 'vm-sorry.ulaw' (language 'en')
    -- <SIP/199-000000d1> Playing 'vm-torerecord.ulaw' (language 'en')







On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:42 PM, A J Stiles
<asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk>wrote:

> On Thursday 30 Jun 2011, michael k wrote:
> > All,
> >
> >        I am new in Asterisk. I am using asterisks with freepbx 2.7.0.10
> > version. I have tried to setup voice mail by dialing *97 from my
> extension.
> > The prerecorded system asking for a "pond key" at the end of each
> > recording. But unfortunately  i am not able to locate a pound key on my
> > qwerty key board. I have tried shift+3 but no luck. Please someone help
> me
> > to figure out the pound key in my keyboard.
> >
> > Michael.k
>
> By "pound key" I presume they mean a comment mark  (#),  ASCII position 35
> /
> 0x23.  Also known as a number sign, hash or square.
>
> Now a boring history lesson:  In the bad old days, ASCII was a 7-bit code;
> and
> each country had a national variant, replacing certain obscure punctuation
> marks with accented characters and other symbols peculiar to the local
> language and culture.  In the old British ASCII variant, position 35 was
> indeed a £ sign  (a stylised cursive L with a horizontal bar, occupying
> position 163 now we are using 8 bits per character).
>
> This seems to be the source of the confusion.  At any rate, I have never
> seen
> a British, American or other nationality telephone with a £ key bottom
> right -- though I have encountered many printers that produced a £ sign
> instead of a #, when given ASCII code 35.
>
> On my machine  (British keyboard, Linux)  I can type a £ sign by pressing
> shift + 3; I can also get one by pressing Alt Gr + shift + 3.  On a Mac,
> shift + 3 and option + 3 produce £ and #, one way around or the other.  I
> don't know about Windows.
>
> One might have naïvely expected them to choose position 36 -- the dollar
> sign
> in US ASCII -- for the pound sign in British ASCII; but British practice
> was
> to write, for example,  "No. 1" as opposed to "#1", and in any case there
> might be good reasons for wanting two currency symbols -- easier to sell
> computers to banks if they look as though they can perform conversions
> between currencies?  Also, the British variant would have been the obvious
> choice in countries such as Australia and New Zealand, where the local
> currency is called the dollar and given the symbol $.
>
> --
> AJS
>
> Answers come *after* questions.
>
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-- 
Michael.k
System Administrator
InApp Information Technologies (I) Pvt Ltd
www.inapp.com
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