Character Support - Cisco MGCP IP Phone Administrator's Manual

Supported Features
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Character Support

The Cisco MGCP IP phone supports the ISO 8859-1 Latin1 characters. The following languages are
supported:
French (fr), Spanish (es), Catalan (ca), Basque (eu), Portuguese (pt), Italian (it), Albanian (sq),
Rhaeto-Romanic (rm), Dutch (nl), German (de), Danish (da), Swedish (sv), Norwegian (no), Finnish (fi),
Faroese (fo), Icelandic (is), Irish (ga), Scottish (gd), English (en), Afrikaans (af) and Swahili (sw).
The following languages are not supported:
Zulu (zu) and other Bantu languages using Latin Extended-B letters, Arabic in North Africa, and
Guarani (gn) missing GEIUY with ~ tilde.
The info key text and the Settings menu are in English. These items are built into the phone image and
Note
cannot be changed.
ISO 8859-1 Latin1 characters can be used in the following areas:
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Cisco MGCP IP Phone Administrator Guide, Release 5.0 and Release 5.1
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User Datagram Protocol (UDP)—A simple protocol that exchanges data packets without
acknowledgments or guaranteed delivery. MGCP can use UDP as the underlying transport protocol.
If UDP is used, retransmissions are used to ensure reliability.
Caller ID information. When an MGCP message is received with ISO 8859-1 Latin1 characters in
the caller ID strings, those caller ID strings are displayed on the Cisco MGCP phone's LCD screen
with the correct ISO 8859-1 Latin1 characters.
Services menu applications written in CMXML. The customer can develop language-specific
applications for a particular region. For example, an application that displayed the current weather
in Sweden using Swedish language characters can be displayed on the Cisco MGCP IP phone. If the
customer develops the same application for a Spanish town, they could translate the application into
Spanish.
Call control displays (external MGCP XML card deck). The XML deck used for MGCP call control
is downloaded to the phone, and those XML cards can be translated into the local language.
The Info key text and the test contained in the Settings menu are displayed in English.
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Line key labels. Line key labels are set using an MGCP message that sets the label to the string
provided. Strings containing ISO 8859-1 Latin1 characters are displayed properly.
Soft key labels. Soft key labels are set using XML cards. XML cards, including call controls cards
and services applications, can provide soft keys with ISO 8859-1 Latin1 characters.
Chapter 1 Product Overview