Unicode Encoding and decoding issues in QRCode

Question

I am trying to generate UTF-8 QRCode so that I can encore accents and Unicode characters.

To test it, I am using many decoding solution :

1. http://zxing.

Answer 1

The solution that comes up, is to encode the text in UTF-8 and add a BOM to specify that the string is actually in UTF-8.

Here it works :

• http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=200x200&choe=UTF-8&chl=%EF%BB%BFR%C3%A9my+Hubscher