zbar VS qrencode

[lejeczek]

Hi guys

I have a peculiar case, I think, while using national chars.
I wonder which one is _playing_ up here, qrencode or zbarimg

When I with:
-> qrencode -l L -v 1 ..
encode:

ADR;LABEL="Kukólka":;;;Kukólka;Mazowieckie;PL
then:

-> $ zbarimg ...
...
ADR;LABEL="Kuk籀lka":;;;Kuk籀lka;Mazowieckie;PL

but when I encode:
ADR;LABEL="Kukółka":;;;Kukółka;Mazowieckie;PL
then:

-> $ zbarimg ....
...
ADR;LABEL="Kukółka":;;;Kukółka;Mazowieckie;PL

you see - if all the "processors" between our email clients, 
mine your yours, did not mangle the content - it seems when 
there is only *single* polish char - ó - then _zbaring_ 
shows that weird output - a Korean or Japanese?
Any other case, add just one morenational char in the line 
and the output, even that same - ó - mangled when single, 
now shows as it should.
So I checked all nine polish national chars and it's: ó and 
ż when occur as single in a line - _zbarimg_ shows them 
incorrectly. (or _qrencode_ fails?)

Any _qrencode_ & _zbarimg_ users here who use their national 
chars?
I'll be glad for all comments.

thanks, L.

[lejeczek]

On 19/11/2023 14:17, lejeczek via users wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I have a peculiar case, I think, while using national chars.
> I wonder which one is _playing_ up here, qrencode or zbarimg
>
> When I with:
> -> qrencode -l L -v 1 ..
> encode:
>
> ADR;LABEL="Kukólka":;;;Kukólka;Mazowieckie;PL
> then:
>
> -> $ zbarimg ...
> ...
> ADR;LABEL="Kuk籀lka":;;;Kuk籀lka;Mazowieckie;PL
>
> but when I encode:
> ADR;LABEL="Kukółka":;;;Kukółka;Mazowieckie;PL
> then:
>
> -> $ zbarimg ....
> ...
> ADR;LABEL="Kukółka":;;;Kukółka;Mazowieckie;PL
>
> you see - if all the "processors" between our email 
> clients, mine your yours, did not mangle the content - it 
> seems when there is only *single* polish char - ó - then 
> _zbaring_ shows that weird output - a Korean or Japanese?
> Any other case, add just one morenational char in the line 
> and the output, even that same - ó - mangled when single, 
> now shows as it should.
> So I checked all nine polish national chars and it's: ó 
> and ż when occur as single in a line - _zbarimg_ shows 
> them incorrectly. (or _qrencode_ fails?)
>
> Any _qrencode_ & _zbarimg_ users here who use their 
> national chars?
> I'll be glad for all comments.
>
> thanks, L.

Ah, to answer my question - partly at least - seems that 
_zbarimg_ could use some fixing up.
Trying _qrscanner_ and here I get everything shown correctly.

Would anybody know if _zbarimg_ is looked after still, if 
it's worth filing a bug?

[Barry Scott]

> On 19 Nov 2023, at 14:29, lejeczek via users  wrote:
>
> Would anybody know if _zbarimg_ is looked after still, if it's worth filing a bug?

The internet knows!

A web search and click or two got me here https://sourceforge.net/p/zbar/code/commit_browser
The last commit was in 2012.

Barry