Phone number highlighting is not localized

[Víctor R. Ruiz]

Test plan has a case to "Receive an sms that has a phone number in it". Test case passes, but only if the number has a US (I guess) format, that is 617-688-0034. Spanish phone numbers like "666.777.888" or "666554433" aren't highlighted.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

I don't understand what is supposed to be highlighted? What is the use case that is not working?

[Víctor R. Ruiz (vrruiz)]

Bill: If the phone number has an specific format, it is "linked" (as in HTML), so you can tap on it in order to start a call. That format is not localized, so usual phone numbers in Spain (or in other countries) don't get "linked" (or "highlighted").

[Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)]

I ran into this issue (or something close enough) while dog fooding the phone, so I MRd some branches that ought to strengthen the phone number detection (that was failing in my case) and also cover this bug,

[Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)]

Those also fix issues around false positives (that I have quite a bit in my case) when processing the message texts to tel://

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package messaging-app - 0.1+15.04.20150212~rtm-0ubuntu1

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messaging-app (0.1+15.04.20150212~rtm-0ubuntu1) 14.09; urgency=medium

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * New rebuild forced

  [ Gustavo Pichorim Boiko ]
  * Localize and strengthen the phone number detection scheme used from
    within a given message bubble as it is replaced by tel:// URIs. (LP:
    #1376803, #1391183)

  [ Tiago Salem Herrmann ]
  * Disable spinner for incoming messages. (LP: #1420976)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:16:39 +0000