Latin Capital Letter I With Diaeresis

[jeffmcneill]

I'm encoding with code128 which generates:

Ò3FI83ÏÓ
from
1938412419

However, the display is not correct for Ï, see attached: the font display for code128_L leaves a large gap and can't be read by code128 readers.

[Holger-Will]

should be fixed now... had the fix for it in barcode-font-generator but did not get around fixing these fonts here. thanks for the report!

[jeffmcneill]

Hi, I've tried these new fonts but they just have a latin uppercase i diaeresis rather than a bar code, and now the capital O acute and capital O grave also do not have bars, but the extended latin character for each.

[Holger-Will]

make sure to update the encoder as well. i had to change quite a bit because of some strange mapping info on wikipedia... graphicore/librebarcode#9

[Holger-Will]

your encoded string should now be: Í3FI83ÊÎ and should render well with my font as well as with the fonts found on google fonts etc.

[Holger-Will]

you see it working here: https://holger-will.github.io/code-128-encoder/examples/html/encoder.html

[jeffmcneill]

Great, that worked.Thanks for your amazingly speedy response. These two apps help me a lot. I use them to generate ASIN barcodes for Amazon. Since the ASINs are effectively ISBN-10 codes, other people's scripts detect that and generate the full-blown ISBN barcode. By breaking out the encoding part, and then using a font to display the code, this solves my problem and I can manage the codes easily in Inkscape.

[Holger-Will]

that is exactly the usecase i wrote this for ;-) cheers!