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Old 03-16-2022, 04:19 PM   #1
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seeking howto display text block from QRencode on iPhone and Android


I have a block of raw text* -- actually, my contact name, address, etc. I used qrencode to create a PNG file with a nice QR-code graphic. Can someone tell me how to get iPhone to display the block of text?

When I scan from iPhone, I get a dialog that only display a map for the
street address from within the contact details text block.

When I scan from Android, I get a dialog that will open and show me the complete contact details contents of the text block. The details appear in
whichever "notes" app is available on the Android device.

Stumped,
~~~ 0;-/ Dan

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* text block -- name, address, city, state, zip, phone, email, etc
one item per line, newline terminated
extra newline at the end
 
Old 03-17-2022, 05:58 PM   #2
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Can someone tell me how to get iPhone to display the block of text?
This is a Linux forum, not an iPhone forum.

(That Android works proves that qrencode is producing a valid QR code, so the issue is on the iOS side.)

Asking iOS questions is welcome in the Other *NIX section (and you can use the "report" button to ask a mod to move this thread), but you'll probably get a faster answer if you find an iPhone-focused community to ask.


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Old 08-05-2022, 12:42 PM   #3
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This is a Linux forum, not an iPhone forum.

(That Android works proves that qrencode is producing a valid QR code, so the issue is on the iOS side.)

Asking iOS questions is welcome in the Other *NIX section (and you can use the "report" button to ask a mod to move this thread), but you'll probably get a faster answer if you find an iPhone-focused community to ask.
I understand the forum rules and intentions. However, since I'm a noob as far as QR generation is concerned, I don't know if there is something that I need to add to my 'qrencode' commands -- A LINUX TOPIC -- so that the scan result is purely text instead of a URL or similar. Does the pure text that I want displayed -- created in a pure-text editor as a junk.txt file -- need some sort of markup, mark-down, or other content so that it display correctly -- input to 'qrencode' also A LINUX TOPIC.

Since Android is more linux like that like any other platform, is this a CRLF vs. Newline issue?
Is there something else going on?

Thank you for your reply,
~~~ 0;-Dan
 
  


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