[EAS] Multilingual support for CAP messages

Harold Price hprice at sagealertingsystems.com
Sat Mar 26 11:26:14 CDT 2016


Dave - here are the Sage-centric answers to your questions.

>  1. Which decoders were confirmed to support a broadcaster indicating
>     which language they want?  Or not support?

The ENDEC allows the user to specify which info block to process by language.

>  2. In an alert carrying more than one language, which decoders
>     successfully (or unsuccessfully), chose the correct one to broadcast?

The Sage ENDEC allows the user to select the language, and does chose 
the correct one.

>  3. If you, say, specify Spanish, but an alert only has content tagged
>     as English, will the English version be aired?

You can specify a primary language, and optionally, a backup 
language.  If the primary is not present, but the backup is, you play 
the backup.  If you don't specify a backup, and the primary alert is 
not present, then you don't play the alert at all.  Note that this 
might not fit within the FCC rules, which require you to forward an 
RMT for your area, and don't allow you to skip it if it does not 
contain your desired language.  In the US, users should specify 
English as the backup.

>  4. Did the alerts include both text and audio for both languages involved?

For the recent NPT, yes.



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