[EAS] Buggy alert origination software during Santa Barbara wildfires

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Fri Dec 13 13:35:27 CST 2019


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Unicode Constraints Creating CAP Alerts (PDF) [2 pages]

Unicode and UTF-8 encoding issues are common. The Unicode consortium has 
done a lot of work in later Unicode versions. I tried to distill guidance 
based on what I saw in CAP messages into a couple of pages, but Alert 
Origination Software vendors should also look at the Unicode documents.



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