asterisk users - Sep 2005 - translate letters into digits

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

Why do you need to write an application for this? Why don't you just
make joe extension 563??

--
Tom

On 9/13/05, Armin Schindler <armin@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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-- 
Tom