Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of restaurant receipts?
Geoff Thompson <thompson@ieee.org> Sat, 30 July 2011 16:36 UTC
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Subject: Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of restaurant receipts?
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Dale- I don't know about the "dingbats" (I've never been able to decode the dingbats in my life) The contents of the barcode is shown in text below the barcode. The barcode is used to ring up your transaction when you (or your waiter) takes the check to the cash register. The register scans it to recall your transaction. It avoids having to re-key in the amount. Geoff On 287//11 1:29 PM, Worley, Dale R (Dale) wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 81attendees mailing list > 81attendees@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/81attendees >
- [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of restaur… Worley, Dale R (Dale)
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Geoff Thompson
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Paul Hoffman
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… John R. Levine
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Simon Perreault
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Ted Lemon
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… John R. Levine
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Richard Barnes
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Worley, Dale R (Dale)
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Ben Campbell
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… John R. Levine
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Paul Coverdale
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Bill Ver Steeg (versteb)
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Tobias Gondrom
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Andrew Thurber
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Tobias Gondrom
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Worley, Dale R (Dale)
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Worley, Dale R (Dale)
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Richard Barnes
- Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of res… Worley, Dale R (Dale)