[EAS] Multilingual support for CAP messages

Dave Turnmire EASsbeList at cableone.net
Fri Mar 25 13:21:17 CDT 2016


As I recall, last November's regional NPT test and the recent February 
test, included tests of multilingual CAP messages.  I'd like some 
clarification regarding the current support for this.  For instance:

 1. Which decoders were confirmed to support a broadcaster indicating
    which language they want?  Or not support?
 2. In an alert carrying more than one language, which decoders
    successfully (or unsuccessfully), chose the correct one to broadcast?
 3. If you, say, specify Spanish, but an alert only has content tagged
    as English, will the English version be aired?
 4. Did the alerts include both text and audio for both languages involved?

Are there any jurisdictions that are currently issuing multilingual 
alerts routinely... or planning to in the near future?  If so, I'm 
curious about the practical issues of generating a multilingual alert in 
a timely manner.

Thanks

Dave Turnmire
Chair
Idaho SECC



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