In 1965 there wasn't much international direct dialling yet; mainly to neighbouring countries. The rest was done via an operator. International exchanges tended to buffer the entire called phone number anyway, even back in electromechanical times, which meant they could also translate the pulses if that would have been necessary.

goodness, what a thought ><. Not too far back we called 911 on a cell phone that we didn't know had the microphone shorted when it had gotten wet earlier in the day but otherwise was completely operational. Took several minutes to figure out what was going on. I think we wound up texting a friend that we'd call them and to verify they could hear us or not. We wound up having a headset handy luckily enough.

were you running cyanogenmod? i remember one version of that ROM having e911 issues