Bug#637570: asterisk: Voicemail promts for italian language not found, english used instead

[Fabio Muzzi]

Package: asterisk
Version: 1:1.6.2.9-2+squeeze3
Severity: normal


Asterisk 1.6.2 from Debian Squeeze, even with italian propmt files installed (package is asterisk-prompt-it), fails to prononunce numbers in italian language.

How to reproduce:

Dial into voicemail, enter menu, listen to the voice that says "you have X messages" (in italian!) and you will hear the text in italian, but the numbers in english. In console, with the appropriate "verbose" level, you will see that language is properly selected, as follows:

    -- <SIP/11-0000000e> Playing 'vm-youhave.gsm' (language 'it')
    -- <SIP/11-0000000e> Playing 'digits/8.gsm' (language 'it')
    -- <SIP/11-0000000e> Playing 'vm-nuovi.gsm' (language 'it')
    -- <SIP/11-0000000e> Playing 'vm-messages.gsm' (language 'it')

Anyway, the number "8" (in this example) is prononunced in English.


How to fix:

If you copy all of the audio files from /usr/share/asterisk/sounds/digits/it to /usr/share/asterisk/sounds/digits (that is, from the "it" directory to the previous directory) then Asterisk will find them and use them. 

I suppose that the voicemail application fails to add "it" (or any other language string) when opening number files, so copying them out of the "it" directory makes it work. Clearly this workaround does not allow to use more than one language.






-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages asterisk depends on:
ii  adduser            3.112+nmu2            add and remove users and groups
ii  asterisk-config    1:1.6.2.9-2+squeeze3  Configuration files for Asterisk
ii  asterisk-sounds-ma 1:1.6.2.9-2+squeeze3  Core Sound files for Asterisk (Eng
ii  dahdi              1:2.2.1.1-1           utilities for using the DAHDI kern
ii  libasound2         1.0.23-2.1            shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc-client2007e   8:2007e~dfsg-3.1      c-client library for mail protocol
ii  libc6              2.11.2-10             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2            1:2.19-3              support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libcurl3           7.21.0-2              Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1            1:4.4.5-8             GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.24.2-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgmime-2.0-2a    2.2.25-2              MIME library
ii  libgsm1            1.0.13-3              Shared libraries for GSM speech co
ii  libiksemel3        1.2-4                 C library for the Jabber IM platfo
ii  libjack0 [libjack- 1:0.118+svn3796-7     JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libldap-2.4-2      2.4.23-7.2            OpenLDAP libraries
ii  liblua5.1-0        5.1.4-5               Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
ii  libncurses5        5.7+20100313-5        shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libnewt0.52        0.52.11-1             Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex
ii  libogg0            1.2.0~dfsg-1          Ogg bitstream library
ii  libopenais3        1.1.2-2               Standards-based cluster framework 
ii  libopenr2-3        1.3.0-2               MFC/R2 (telephony) call setup libr
ii  libpopt0           1.16-1                lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libpq5             8.4.8-0squeeze2       PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libpri1.4          1.4.11.3-1            Primary Rate ISDN specification li
ii  libradiusclient-ng 0.5.6-1.1             Enhanced RADIUS client library
ii  libresample1       0.1.3-3               real-time audio resampling library
ii  libsdl1.2debian    1.2.14-6.1            Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsnmp15          5.4.3~dfsg-2          SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libspandsp2        0.0.6~pre12-1         Telephony signal processing librar
ii  libspeex1          1.2~rc1-1             The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libspeexdsp1       1.2~rc1-1             The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libsqlite0         2.8.17-6              SQLite shared library
ii  libss7-1           1.0.2-1               Signalling System 7 (ss7) library
ii  libssl0.9.8        0.9.8o-4squeeze1      SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6         4.4.5-8               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsybdb5          0.82-7                libraries for connecting to MS SQL
ii  libtiff4           3.9.4-5+squeeze3      Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libtonezone2.0     1:2.2.1.1-1           tonezone library (runtime)
ii  libvorbis0a        1.3.1-1               The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2      1.3.1-1               The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvpb0            4.2.52-2              Voicetronix telephony hardware use
ii  libx11-6           2:1.3.3-4             X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library
ii  unixodbc           2.2.14p2-1            ODBC tools libraries
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages asterisk recommends:
ii  sox                          14.3.1-1+b1 Swiss army knife of sound processi

Versions of packages asterisk suggests:
pn  asterisk-dev                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  asterisk-doc                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  asterisk-h323                 <none>     (no description available)

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