>>>Now the next thing will be to complete the linear codes with EAN-128
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>>That should be done in an instant. (^.^)
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>>AFAIK EAN128 is the same as Code128, it adds up only special codes and checksums. But if Code1128 is working, this is nothing as a wrapper to add the codes needed.
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>>See http://grandzebu.net/index.php, (Switch to english, go to EAN / Code 128). It even exposes a VFP example for the code generation.
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>>This is the source for the class I've mailed to you.
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>>Agnes
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>>BTW: This page exposes a VB code for PDF417.
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>>Update:
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>>This code should work with DataMatix as well as with DataBar.
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>>Update 2:
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>>Do you have seen the composite codes?
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>Hi Agnes,
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>Code 128 is not the same as EAN/UCC128. Apart from the special character FNC2 added to the start character, you must control the Application Identificdores (IAs), his long, and the shift of set A, B or C, depending on whether the character is uppercase, lowercase or numeric, parity, length, etc.
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>I already knew the link, thanks.
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>Not yet seen the composite codes, surely they will not be in a instant :-)

Luis,

Am I that wrong?

From http://www.adams1.com/ucc128.html ... The bar code symbology is code 128. ...

So FNC2 is not the same FNC2 as defined in Code128, the value 97, ASCII 0202?
My idea was that all the tables A, B, C, the functions etc are defined in Code 128 and that EAN128 only use the codes?
The barcode itself remains unchanged?
IOW EAN128 is for the reader a Code128, only the knowledge of the structure of a EAN128 (starts with FNC, usage of the AI's, checksums) gives other results. So the difference is not the barcode, it's the content.

Any encoder that can generate a Code128 should produce an EAN128, if it is fed with the correct data.
The same is for the DataMatrix

Agnes