As I said, the digits might be OCR recognized in any similar font.

The first point, MICR, needs both the right font and magnetic ink.


-----Original Message-----
From: John Ralls <[email protected]>
To: David G. Pickett <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2021 11:12 am
Subject: Re: [GNC] A Linux utility/program to print ABA and account



> On May 20, 2021, at 7:32 AM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Check numbers are in magnetic ink for reading by MICR scanners, but . . .
> 
> I deposit many checks by photo, so any print would probably work for the 
> digits, but . . .
> 
> You need the symbols that divide the fields: transit mark, slash, dash, 
> paragraph or on-us marks.  I would be amazed if Unicode did not have all 
> this.  Having the ABA style numbers would not hurt, and they are probably in 
> there, too.  Let me ask my friend Google.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recognition  
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_2033#Character_set_for_E-13B

Notice that the code points for the numbers are the plain ASCII ones. You need 
a typeface with the MICR glyphs.

Regards,
John Ralls

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