Found that somewhat old e-mail from Clive, but the web site is still there ... Good luck Arnold
-----Original Message----- From: Hohberger, Clive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:34 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Bar codes using unicode Speaking as a member of the AIM bar code standards committee, there are new two bar codes which support Unicode. 93i (designed by Sprague Ackey of Intermec) is a linear, error-correcting barcode has issue as an AIM International Technical Standard, and it encodes Unicode 2.0/2.1. For an overview, see: http://www.aimglobal.org/standards/symbinfo/93i_overview.htm Ultracode(r) and Color Ultracode (designed by me; Zebra Technologies Corporation) are 2-dimensional error-correcting symbologies in the AIM standards process. The Ultracode symbology is a constant-height, variable length two-dimensional "linear matrix" using 9-cell high x 2-cell wide tiles containing 283 different values (orignally was 47). Ultracode can encode either 8-bit, multi-byte or the full 21-bit Unicode 3-series character sets. Because of the unique way in which characters are encoded, there is little difference in symbol length when either 8-bit or Unicode encoding is used with either Latin or non-Latin characters such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. UTF-8 is the default input/output. Black & white Ultracode is scheduled for completion this year... Color Ultracode in 2002. Anyone wishing a copy of the current Ultracode draft spec should contact me offline ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Clive
