Is Big5 supoorted in the 2-D barcode

[Former Community Member]

Hi,



I have a form which has a 2-D barcode (PDF417) for storing the information which user input. And the user will input some Chinese character in Big5. But I got some 'strange' character when scanned the barcode into a notepad which i didn't have any problem when scanning the English input.



Is Big5 supported?



I used Acrobat 8 professional to create and fill in the form.



Thanks a lot!



Regards,

ShukPing

[Former Community Member]

By default the character encoding is UTF-8. However, this can be changed by using the new encoding selection in Designer 8 or by modifying the encoding property within the XML of the PDF.

I've uploaded a sample for you here:

http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/barcodedformssampleharacterencodingpdf417/

In the XML, the barcode element would look something like this:



Just be aware that some hand scanners do not work well with double-byte character set encoding so you may want to perform your tests with a software based decoder to avoid problems.