1. A method for processing traffic data at a terminal that includes a receiver and decoder, the method comprising: receiving, at a receiver, traffic data including a Transport Protocol Experts Group Message (TPEG-Message) including a message management container, an event container, and a location container; and decoding, at a decoder, the received traffic data, wherein the event container includes a status component and an additional information component, and the additional information component includes text information and a language code, wherein the TPEG-Message further includes first information identifying a specific encoding scheme of a character string of the text information for the additional information component, wherein the status component includes a first identifier for identifying the status component, and wherein the additional information component includes a second identifier for identifying the additional information component.