Wrong decoding of accented characters
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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zbar (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When decoding a QR code containing latin accented characters, the output text uses the wrong encoding and outputs some Asian characters.
Attached is an example image (from this page showing a sample of a Swiss QR bill : https:/
The text output by
zbarimg swissqr_
shows :
H繹rnlistrasse # on line 7
Pf瓣ffikon # on line 10
T繹distrasse # on line 23
Z羹rich # on line 26
instead of :
Hörnlistrasse
Pfäffikon
Tödistrasse
Zürich
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
$ zbarimg --version
0.23
$ dpkg -l | grep zbar
ii libzbar0:amd64 0.23-1.3 amd64 QR code / bar code scanner and decoder (library)
ii libzbargtk0:amd64 0.23-1.3 amd64 QR code / bar code scanner and decoder (GTK+ bindings)
ii python3-zbar:amd64 0.23-1.3 amd64 QR code / bar code scanner and decoder (Python bindings)
ii zbar-tools 0.23-1.3 amd64 QR code / bar code scanner and decoder (utilities)
ii zbarcam-gtk 0.23-1.3 amd64 QR code / bar code scanner and decoder (Gtk camera tool)