I'm up against the same issue, glad to see I'm not crazy.  Did you
ever find a workaround or get any resolution?

On Apr 25, 6:26 am, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Encoding # works fine. An encoded comma or semi-colon doesn't display
> and stops further parsing of the number at that point, as far as the
> phone app is concerned (Nexus here).
> You can manually add them with the phone app via the menu options but
> that doesn't help me much when the purpose is auto-dialling.
>
> Any other workarounds or does this need reporting ?
>
> Lee
>
> On Apr 13, 2:38 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Gustavo wrote:
> > > I'm trying to place a call with Intent.ACTION_CALLand a tel uri
> > > including pauses and dtmf codes to be sent when the call is
> > > established (i.e. tel:+1777777777,,,,,,,,,,5555555).
>
> > > Android strips all the special characters and place the call to the
> > > rest of the uri (i.e. tel:+17777777775555555)
>
> > > Any workaround?
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> > > I'm testing it with HTC Hero (1.5)
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> > Commas are not valid URL characters and need to be escaped. Either use a
> > URLEncoder or just convert each of them to %2C.
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