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[81attendees] What is it at the bottom of restaurant receipts?

"Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <dworley@avaya.com> Thu, 28 July 2011 20:31 UTC

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What is the stuff at the bottom of restaurant receipts in Quebec?
The text is sensible, but there's a high-information-content
barcode as well.  Also, the bottom line is made of dingbats; it looks like
someone sorted through Unicode to find the most interesting
symbols available.  Different bills have different rows of dingbats.
In fact, it looks like the sekret code I designed when I was 12...

Dale

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