[EAS] Need new excuses for multilingual support with global supply chain

[Sean Donelan]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> The $64000 question here is how many languages? Overseas, where the
> regulators are most assuredly more nationalist than here, they limit
> languages to very few. Here OTOH, every single dialect wants in.  They
> can't have it both ways.

How many different emojies should be supported in text messages?

I'm just annoyed by the semi-bogus claim by an industry representative 
that the WEA/CMAS 2.0 standards needed to be changed to support multiple 
languages.

Since at least 2008, the draft CMAS standards and international 3GPP 
standards were written with support for multiple languages. Some of 
the example languages in 2008 drafts were English, Spanish, French 
(canadian) and "Other."

WEA 2.0 didn't need changes to support for multiple languages. It already 
had support for multiple languages.

The changes for WEA 2.0 (3GPP) added new codes for the Public Safety 
Message and State/Local Test Message in both primary and alternate 
languages.  The standards for existing WEA 1.0 alert types already had 
codes for multiple languages.

You can google old ATIS powerpoints about multiple languages in CMAS from 
2008.