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Note that the URL also has to be encoded in two segments, so that the decimal part can use a more efficient QR encoding than the alphanumeric base URL. I'm not
by pimlottc 3y ago
Note that the URL also has to be encoded in two segments, so that the decimal part can use a more efficient QR encoding than the alphanumeric base URL.
I'm not sure that qrencode CLI tool will automatically do this for you.
> In a URL, the rest of the URL is not purely numeric, so actually seeing the benefits of this encoding requires using two segments:
> * one with the “boring” bits of the URL at the start, likely using the Binary mode
> * one with the big blob of base10 data, using the Numeric mode
- lifthrasiir 3y ago> I'm not sure that qrencode CLI tool will automatically do this for you. If I'm looking at the correct repository, it does [1]. [1] https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode/blob/master/split.c https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode/blob/master/split.c
- pimlottc 3y agoYou're right! I briefly searched the code but I missed seeing that since they don't use the term "segment".