I still find it strong, that in 2022, character encoding is still a problem. There are many languages with accents.

I make hundreds of business cards a year, I have just integrated the QR code and it looks completely digital, it's a shame to be blocked by a "small detail" of encoding

In the actual version of indesign (18.0) there is still an issue with internal generated vCard-QR-Code scanned by an iphone. I filed this bugs also two years ago

In germany there are special Characters called "Umlaute" (ü, ö, ä) or the "sharp s" (ß). If these characters are used in an vCard generated within the buildin function from indesign, they are replaced with other symbols on the iPhone QR-Code-Camera Reader.

I think this is only a Problem of the used vCard-Version. I think indesign uses Version 2.1 if you would just use Version 3.0 this issue does not appear.

please see attached one example

Kind regards from germany

Max

@amaarora The bug is still not fixed in Indesign 2023 Version 18.0

I have the same problem with "ü" and "ß". We need a bugfix, otherwise its not usable in germany, switzerland, austria, poland etc.

Please fix this!

2022 : Professional Software requires professional features and options. QR-Codes-management (formats-selection, accentuated characters handling, etc..) should be available. Bugfree for deployment. :)

It’s a critical issue for all content creators / agencies.

What can we do to help ADOBE fix it asap ?

France, many names and (most) addresses have accented characters.
It's an insult to not spell a person's name correctly.
Clément
Gaëlle
Gérard

Shocked to see that this is still an issue.

Hello, I discover this issue today (May 5th, 2022) working on QR code VCards I'm currently working on using latest version of Indesign available (V17.2.1). I read amaarora saying this issue will be reviewed by InDesign Team shortly after November 4th, 2020 (more than one year and a half). AMAARORA Do you have any news today?

Please fix it, thank you

No way to make QR, please!!!!!! From v.14

When will this issue be resolved?
Polish chars ie., ą, ę, ł., ó.

The same problem with polish letters: ĄąĆćĘꣳŃńÓ󌜯żŹź (only 18 characters). Iphone don't recognise them.
Maybe you should open a Support Ticket at Apple?

This is actually quite terrible. To not UTF encode is a disaster! Fix it!

Yes please the new version 17.0 still has this bug

Hi, is there any progress because of this problem? it was posted over a year ago.

Kind regards

I found a workaround to this, using data merge.
When you create the source data for data merge like in https://www.tech4pub.com/2015/02/03/indesign-cc-tip-adding-qr-codes-with-data-merge/, you can specify vcard version 3.0 instead of 2.1 and then the issues goes away. Terribly annoying if you only need to make one or a couple of codes, but it works.

I used the concatenation function in excel to generate the vcard data from existing cells of data. Also terribly annoying.

This function from adobe "works" but is not really usable. Really makes you wonder what they do with our money.

That was November 2020.... September 2021 - It is still not fixed..

same problem still there...
thanks for updating vcard to 3.0 in indesign very very soon.

same hereI fix it immediately, please!