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

[Dave Kline]

How about we just use emojies for WEA alerts?
Something based on the old Weather Rock.
If the emojie is white, that's a blizzard warning.
If its wet - Thunderstorm
If its gone - High Wind
Wearing Ruby Slippers - Tornado
If its shaking - Earthquake
Glowing in the dark - Radiological
Under a roof - shelter in place
In a boat - for floods
?

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 12:32 AM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>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.

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