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Hi

I'm trying to add a PDF417 barcode to a stimulsoft report in a ASP.NET MVC app. Stimulsoft version is 2018.3.5.

The problem is that when the barcode data contains special characters from the Croatian language, I get the “Input data not valid for this barcode” error. My understanding is that there should be an option to change the encoding to UTF-8. I found this option for the QR barcode (StiOptions.Engine.BarcodeQRCodeDefaultByteModeEncoding = StiQRCodeECIMode.UTF_8), and it works fine with all characters, but I can’t find it for PDF417.

I attached a picture with all the designer options I’m using. The code here contains just one of the characters that causes the error.

Hello,

PDF417 was never originally designed to support Multi-byte character sets (Unicode). Some modern readers now allow for UTF-8 encoded PDF417 to work around this limitation.

But you are the first person to ask about this in the last five years. The vast majority of users use the QR-Code barcode for Unicode.
So unfortunately we have not updated the functionality of this PDF417 barcode in a long time.
If you need it, send a request to the support@stimulsoft.com, we will try to investigate the issue.

Thank you.

Thanks for the info.

All things considered, we decided to just replace the problematic characters with similar ones that work.

Hello,

Thank you for the information.