I’m at the home of my parents-in-law in Vilnius, doing some business expenses. The rest of the family are round at my brother-in-law’s house. To avoid spreading my sneezes and diseases, I’m staying home alone.
The phone rings. Uh-oh. No caller ID display on this phone. Is it my wife? Some random caller whose speech will be encrypted in Lithuanian?
Unfortunately the PSTN will never be able to reconcile my Accept-Language: en with the caller’s Content-Language: lt.
That said, Skype only makes a passing note of your language preference in your profile, only accepts one language option, and doesn’t do anything with the data like warn you the person you’re calling isn’t likely to understand a word you say.
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I am sure you meant to say tip and ring PSTN, for ISDN could easily be able to reconcile.
Also it should be noted that ATA based systems will have the same difficulty.ATAs shouldn't get a pass simply because they are associated with the cannonized VoIP(or should I say SIP) label.
Posted by: at February 13, 2005 04:20 PM