Honeywell VM2 Bar Code Processing Examples, Control Code Replacement Examples

Control Code Replacement Examples

Configuration	Translation	Example	Example	Translated Data
Data		Control	Configuration
		Character
Ignore (drop)	The control character is dis-	ESCape	Ignore (drop)	0x1B in the bar code is
	carded from the bar code da-			discarded.
	ta, prefix and suffix
Printable text	Text is substituted for Control	Start of TeXt	STX	0x02 in a bar code is con-
	Character.			verted to the text STX.
Hat-encoded text	The hat-encoded text is trans-	Carriage Re-	^M	Value 0x0d in a bar code
	lated to the equivalent hex	turn		is converted to the value
	value.			0x0d.
Escaped hat-en-	The hat-encoding to pass	Horizontal Tab	\^I	Value 0x09 in a bar code
coded text	through to the application.			is converted to the text ^I.
Hex-encoded	The hex-encoded text is	Carriage Re-	0x0A	Value 0x0D in a bar code
text	translated to the equivalent	turn		is converted to a value
	hex value.			0x0A.
Escaped hex-en-	The hex-encoding to pass	Vertical Tab	\0x0A or 0\x0A	Value 0x0C is a bar code
coded text	through to the application.			is converted to text 0x0A

See Hat Encoding (page 10-13).

Bar Code Processing Examples

The following table shows examples of stripping and prefix/suffix configurations.

	Symbology
	All	EAN-128(]C1)	EAN-13(]E0)	Intrlv 2 of 5(]IO)	Code93
Enable	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled	Disabled
Min length	1	4	1	1
Max length	all	all	all	10
Strip Code ID	Enabled	Enabled	Disabled	Enabled
Strip Leading	3	0	3	3
Strip Bar Code Data		*123	1*	456
Strip Trailing	0	0	3	3
Prefix	aaa	bbb	ccc	ddd
Suffix	www	xxx	yyy	zzz

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