[Freeswitch-users] localized dialplans

[Raymond Chandler]

wow, that's a great idea..... as a matter of fact, it sounds just as 
good as when i mentioned it in this post 
http://lists.freeswitch.org/pipermail/freeswitch-users/2007-October/001644.html
I'm sure you probably elaborated on what was there a bit, but isn't it 
the same basic idea

-ilm

trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> I wrote a generic dialplan that can be localized via user variables and
> would like people to customize it by creating variable definitions for
> their respective countries/regions.
>
> r6852 contains
> SRC/scripts/contrib/trixter/dialplan
> 	dialplan.nanpa.xml
> 	dialplan.nl.xml
> 	localized.dialplan.xml
>
> localized.dialplan.xml is a dialplan include
> dialplan.*.xml is a localized USER DIRECTORY variable definition
>
> To use, include localized.dialplan.xml into your dialplan.  For each
> user (or global if you want) include the dialplan.*.xml appropriate for
> your locality into the user variable section.
>
> This should give you the ability to call international, domestic out of
> area, local - same area, and emergency.  In the case on NANPA I have
> made the emergency regexp a little looser so that all X11 services are
> direct route to the provider (eg 411, 611, 911, etc).  
>
> Most of the EU/EEA countries only need to adjust the country code
> variable and the local area (do not prefix 0 eg amsterdam NL is 20 not
> 020, London england is 20[7|8] not 020[7|8]).  This is so that ENUM
> routing will work properly.
>
> If anyone finds a situation where this does not work properly I would
> appreciate it if they would let me know so that I can try to make
> something better that does work universally everywhere, however I think
> it should generally work most places.
>
> I see this more for multi-national providers to allow their customers to
> dial in a way they are more familiar with, giving the users easy choice
> in how their profile is built, as well as end users dealing with
> providers that generally have a single fixed dialplan but as a user you
> want to be able to dial like you would with the PSTN.
>
> It would be a nice touch for a provider to allow their users to dial as
> though they were on the pstn without requiring the UA to do a lot of the
> work, especially when the provider doesnt exactly control the UA.  This
> is a feature I see missing from a great many providers on multiple
> continents.
>