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Bob Ham authored
This option allows the specification of a much broader set of numbers that tel: URIs, which are limited to global phone numbers in international form and prohibit local numbers and other useful strings like "*100#". This functionality is implemented as a command-line option rather than a "dial:" or "callto:" URI scheme for the same reason given in RFC 3966, section 7.3: '"Callto" was discarded because URI schemes locate a resource and do not specify an action to be taken.'
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