{"id":661,"date":"2012-11-27T18:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T18:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/?p=661"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T11:19:43","slug":"codabar-startstop-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/codabar-startstop-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Codabar start\/stop characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often receive emails suggesting that the SDK is outputting incorrect characters at the start or end of a Codabar barcode. This is normally down to confusion over how codabar characters should be interpreted at the end of a barcode&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Codabar barcodes can start and end with with of 4 patterns:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>bars 0100, Spaces 011 = a or A or t or T<\/p>\n<p>Bars 0001, Spaces 110 = b or B or n or N<\/p>\n<p>Bars 0001, Spaces 011 = c or C or *<\/p>\n<p>Bars 0010, Spaces 011 = d or D or e or E<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The SDK has the policy of using &#8220;a&#8221; or &#8220;b&#8221; or &#8220;c&#8221; or &#8220;d&#8221; at the start and &#8220;t&#8221; or &#8220;n&#8221; or &#8220;*&#8221; or &#8220;e&#8221; at the end, but this behavior can be changed through use of the ShowCodabarStartStop property&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>0 = Don&#8217;t display start\/stop characters<\/p>\n<p>1 =\u00a0Use &#8220;a&#8221; or &#8220;b&#8221; or &#8220;c&#8221; or &#8220;d&#8221; at the start and &#8220;t&#8221; or &#8220;n&#8221; or &#8220;*&#8221; or &#8220;e&#8221; at the end (default)<\/p>\n<p>2 =\u00a0Use &#8220;A&#8221; or &#8220;B&#8221; or &#8220;C&#8221; or &#8220;D&#8221; at the start and &#8220;T&#8221; or &#8220;N&#8221; or &#8220;*&#8221; or &#8220;E&#8221; at the end<\/p>\n<p>3 =\u00a0Use &#8220;A&#8221; or &#8220;B&#8221; or &#8220;C&#8221; or &#8220;D&#8221; at the start and end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So if you have a Codabar barcode that has the printed text A12345A underneath then the following values of\u00a0ShowCodabarStartStop will output the text&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>0 = 12345<\/p>\n<p>1 = a12345t<\/p>\n<p>2 = A12345T<\/p>\n<p>3 = A12345A<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often receive emails suggesting that the SDK is outputting incorrect characters at the start or end of a Codabar barcode. This is normally down to confusion over how codabar characters should be interpreted at the end of a barcode&#8230;. Codabar barcodes can start and end with with of 4 patterns: &nbsp; bars 0100, Spaces<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/codabar-startstop-characters\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[19,90,187,188,124,65,159,89],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-settings","tag-barcode","tag-characters","tag-codabar","tag-confusion","tag-error","tag-sdk-2","tag-softek","tag-startstop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}