[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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