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With an emoji for everything known to humankind one would think there were barcode characters in unicode but, nope. Could be useful, probably not too hard to i

• mark-r 6y ago
  Unicode is about the characters themselves, not about the glyphs. Its fonts that provide the connection between them.
• scrollaway 6y ago
  This is not possible for several reasons, one of which being that as mark-r says, Unicode defines the characters themselves; hence why a font works so well. The second reason is that there are a LOT of barcode algorithms, so you would be duplicating the entire encodable codeblock (which is sometimes larger than ascii) a bunch of times. The third issue is that barcode algorithms are not usually literal 1:1 stand ins. Barcodes usually have the equivalent of a header and footer, and often, a character will influence how the next one looks. At a guess, this font can (and probably does) handle that with font ligatures.