While trying to dynamically create qr codes for some client sites I
have found that some types of URL's don't fully encode with the QR
creator..

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&choe=UTF-8&chs=300x300&chl=online_store/?slug=product_info.php&products_id=33
produces a QR code for
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&choe=UTF-8&chs=300x300&chl=online_store/?slug=product_info.php
You can substitute  /showcaseproductdetail.htm?ID=157729&Used=1&  and
get  /showcaseproductdetail.htm?ID=157729 with the same inaccurate
results.

This is a very inconvenient issue since the links that don't produce
the right QR are their product links. I know that the link has to be
converted somehow so that it would read with characters like this:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=350x350&chl=online_store%2F%3Fslug%3Dproduct_info.php%26products_id%3D33

Unfortunately I have not found a way to do that with any kind of
simple, self-enclosed, method [See Below] and it's looking like I
won't. changing the choe value and moving it around doesn't seem to
have any effect at all. From what I can tell jQuery or zxing could do
it but again, I am no kind of programmer. I have been so confounded by
this I was considering trying to work out a link shortening solution,
as of now I am trying to follow all the way through to keep my
original approach.

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PLEASE Someone help me with a suggestion. At the very least a clue or
hint to what I am not seeing. This is the script I am using to create
QR's for the pages:

<script language="JavaScript">
document.write ("<a href=http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?
cht=qr&amp;chs=300x300&amp;chl="+location.href+"?qr target=_blank>
<img height=300 width=300 border=0 src=http://chart.apis.google.com/
chart?cht=qr&amp;chs=300x300&amp;chl="+location.href+"?qr></a>")
</script>

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