Re: [Cbor] CBOR in QRcodes

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Christian Amsüss <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > binary data that is not UTF-8. The dispatch into apps of the OS appears
    > to be focused around interpreting the QR code values as URIs and then
    > registering prefixes (which may not be registered schemes but look like
    > them, or may be schemes including host names) for an installed app (or
    > even to go into the app store).

Android's intent system can handle binary data, but quite possibly the way
that the stock QRcode reader works, that can never make it in.

I guess if one intends to make the COVID certificate usable across the widest
number of scanners, then it needs to be ASCII happy.   So from bouncers at
night clubs with throw-away 2013 era iPhone3s, to PCs running 3270 emulators
at the immigration booth.

I'm sure that a custom QRcode app could process binary if it didn't intend to
dispatch through android intents.

For reasons too stupid to explain, I actually have been walking around with
Avery labels with some self-generated QRcodes in my laptop bag for like two years.
I should see if I can convince some small store with a scanner to let me scan
my QRcode, with Notepad open, and see what happens.

I suspect that the keyboard interface is the critical, smallest path for
QRcode input.

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