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Barcodes lack of standards
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:20 am
by Jackal
Some dumps have spaces between numbers and some don't.. isn't it time we choose a standard? I vote for barcodes without spaces. Besides, we have to make a distinction between 13-digit EAN codes (Europe dumps, and maybe others..?) and 12-digit UPC codes (USA dumps, and maybe others...?).. UPC can be turned into EAN by adding a zero in front, but I think it's better to leave it as 12-digit UPC.
Re: Barcodes lack of standards
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:50 am
by nrl_quaker
I think they should be without spaces.
Re: Barcodes lack of standards
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:08 am
by F1ReB4LL
Why not? IMO, they should be typed with all the spaces and other letters (like the triangle brackets), it's not that hard to type them all.
Re: Barcodes lack of standards
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:47 pm
by DMEnduro
What is the proper output of a scanned barcode? It is without spaces if i'm not mistaken. My vote is for no spaces.
Re: Barcodes lack of standards
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:14 am
by gorelord4e
DMEnduro wrote:What is the proper output of a scanned barcode? It is without spaces if i'm not mistaken. My vote is for no spaces.
Yea its without spaces, I agree it should be without spaces.. and the solution in the db when there are more than one barcode reported works great.
XXXXXXXXX (Germany)
XXXXXXXXX (Spain)
And so on..
Re: Barcodes lack of standards
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:53 am
by r09
Now that we are talking about barcodes, there's one that has always baffled me:
a letter and 11 numbers. Maybe it's some kind of obscure standard used only in Japan, but I've never seen anything like it.
Re: Barcodes lack of standards
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:47 am
by fuzzball
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The first letter ('T' or 'F') isn't included in the JAN code.