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  • GS1 Composite symbologies: Give each symbology its own page, leaving the 2D components

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  • Symbologies: Keep only the uses that help in choosing a symbology

    @terryburton terryburton committed Oct 11, 2026
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  • Symbologies: corrections from a review against the code and specifications; more uses; undocumented options

    @terryburton terryburton committed Oct 11, 2026
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  • EAN-13, UPC-A, EAN-8: Drop the scanner transmission detail; GTIN zero-fill belongs to AI (01)

    @terryburton terryburton committed Oct 11, 2026
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  • Symbologies: their uses, and add-on, sequence variant and error correction notes Uses: lines on the pages that had none, for the uses people look a symbology up by (postal services, healthcare and pharmacy codes, libraries, coupons, payment slips, add-ons, GS1 DataBar), and on Code 128, Code 39, Data Matrix, EAN-13 and UPC-A for ISBT 128, AIAG B-10, IUID, securPharm IFA, EIGP 114 and restricted circulation numbers. GS1 Data Matrix names DSCSA beside the Falsified Medicines Directive. EAN-5 gives the book price add-on's meanings, EAN-2 the issue number, ISSN that the sequence variant is optional, and QR Code what the error correction level trades. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LGTUGDTAGf6XqLkN7ptBiD

    @terryburton terryburton committed Oct 10, 2026
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  • Symbologies: what each is used for, for finding the right one A Uses list on twenty-one symbology pages, naming the applications and their terms (pallet labels and the SSCC, Amazon FNSKU, EU tobacco traceability, direct part marking, healthcare, boarding passes, driver's licences, Wi-Fi and payment QR codes, books, periodicals, printed music, outer cartons). QR Code: the common content formats (ZXing) and the EPC QR Code (EPC069-12). UPC-A and EAN-13: the same bars for a leading 0, transmitted as ]E0 and thirteen digits; EAN-8: a GTIN-8 is assigned, not shortened, and transmitted as ]E4. ITF-14: the bearer frame drawn by default, which GS1 requires when printing with plates, typically onto corrugated board. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LGTUGDTAGf6XqLkN7ptBiD

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  • ISSN, EAN-2, EAN-13: "a dash character", "an EAN-13" Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LGTUGDTAGf6XqLkN7ptBiD

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