Character encoding problem in Japan
Bug #1572565 reported by
IRIE Shinsuke
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tagger |
Confirmed
|
High
|
Michael Zanetti | ||
Bug Description
In Japan, QR codes generated by this app may not be read correctly by the other QR reader app if it includes non-ascii characters.
QR code has been developed by a Japanese company in 1994. At that time, UTF-8 encoding wasn't widely used yet, so the developers initially decided to use Shift-JIS encoding instead and we still use the Shift-JIS encoding for QR codes in most cases.
I think the QR code generator should have an option to specify character encoding like this:
and this:
http://
Tagger: v0.15.0.0
Ubuntu Touch: OTA-10.1
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in tagger: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| assignee: | nobody → Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) |
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