[Blink] Dial Error from Copy Paste of Number

[Saúl Ibarra Corretgé]

Hi,

On Jan 9, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Bryan Miller wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A user encountered an error after copy & pasting a phone number and then attempted to dial. 
> 
> The error is:
> 
> (UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 52: ordinal not in range(128))
> 
> I'm not entirely sure if a paste of the string will go through properly, but here it is:
> 
> 609–585-8051
> 
> Output from od -c
> 0000000    6   0   9   –  **  **   5   8   5   -   8   0   5   1  \n
> 
> This was copy/pasted from the contact page of the site she was on.
> 
> I already advised to simply type in the number by hand if the problem is encountered in the future, but I thought I'd pass it along in case you might want to code a exception handler for such a scenario. 
> 

Thanks for the report! That symbol looks like the normal dash, which we properly skip but it's a different unicode symbol: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2013/index.htm since this is a pretty specific symbol. I'll look into this, since this is a very common symbol used in phone numbers, specially if they are copy and pasted from an external source.


Regards,

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Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
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