Re: Thoughts on current discussion around QR codes from Christopher Allen on 2020-02-16 (public-credentials@w3.org from February 2020)

From: Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 03:44:55 -0800
To: Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>, W3C DID Working Group <public-did-wg@w3.org>, Wolf McNally <wolf@wolfmcnally.com>
Message-ID: <CACrqygBfcUMzB+3MXsFXs1x5vbVV6W-98D4XrpyYs2QEMrCCiQ@mail.gmail.com>

*Han Xin* is a 2D bar code symbology intended particularly for the
representation of Chinese characters. It appears to be based on the GB18030
<http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/GB18030> character encoding
system, which encompasses Chinese and a number of other characters from
Unicode <http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Unicode>. It is a
proprietary system whose formal spec is paywalled at a $147 price.

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Received on Sunday, 16 February 2020 11:45:23 UTC