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		pclmulqdq on April 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 10 > 64, in QR Codes Many QR code readers will auto-lowercase URLs that are encoded in alphanumeric encoding. The rest will recognize uppercase URLs just fine. Alphanumeric encoding was basically made for URLs.

pimlottc on April 2, 2024 [–]

The QR alphanumeric input encoding does not include basic URL query string characters like '?' '&' '='

djbusby on April 3, 2024 | [–]

I've been putting URL in QR for like a decade, mixed case and query string included. How has it never been an issue?

IAmLiterallyAB on April 3, 2024 | | [–]

Because you used bytes mode, not alphanumeric mode

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