QR Code with umlauts (special characters)

[xss]

Dear sirs,

we have a qr code with an umlaut (ö) in the code. Now if we scan the code, some scanners (fe iOS Power Scanner App) can't scan the 'ö' character. Other scan applications (fe iOS Default Camera App) work as expected. Is there a trick to support every scanner? I tried an online QR Code Generator (https://qr.io) with the same data and this works on every scan application.

I attached a sample picture of the Stimulsoft Reports generated code and the online version.

Edit: We use Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2022.4.5.0

[Kirill Klimenkov]

Hello.

Please, try to change the encoding to UTF-8:

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StiOptions.Engine.BarcodeQRCodeDefaultByteModeEncoding = Stimulsoft.Report.BarCodes.StiQRCodeECIMode.UTF_8;

Thank you.

[xss]

Hi,

thank you - work's like a charm. But would it be possible in future releases, to define the ByteModeEncoding and Unicode BOM per QR Code in the Designer? We have a lot of QR Codes for different interfaces to external systems, and it could be possible, that they need a different encoding.

[Kirill Klimenkov]

Hello,

Please send us a request to support@stimulsoft.com and describe your requests in detail.

Thank you.

[xss]

Done.

Thank you Kirill.

[Lech Kulikowski]

Hello,

You are welcome.

[Haizal_Casper]

One thing that has helped me when troubleshooting barcode-related report issues is verifying the actual encoded data before changing the report design. Sometimes the barcode is fine and the problem is in the source data. For quick checks, I've used https://scannr.net/t to decode and inspect barcode contents without needing extra software.