binary to 5-letter words encoder/decoder

[Karl]

i'm used to zbarcam, which also had the irritating attribute of adding
a linebreak after every qr code output, so reading a bunch of binary
qr codes would output them interspersed with linebreaks.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 6:11 PM Stefan Claas
<spam.trap.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 11:58 PM Karl <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > thanks for your words and work
>
> You're welcome!
>
> > On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 4:42 PM Stefan Claas
> > <spam.trap.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > *I received today an encrypted postcard in QR-code but was not able to
> > > decode the message, even with high dpi scan settings.
> >
> > If you are using zbar, and the data contains 8-bit characters, zbar
> > 0.10 does not decode this correctly.  you need to compile zbar from
> > the mercurial sources:
> > https://sourceforge.net/p/zbar/code/ci/default/tree/ `hg clone
> > http://hg.code.sf.net/p/zbar/code zbar-code` to get the content out
> > right.  but maybe you are using some other processor than zbar.
>
> Thanks for the info, will try out tomorrow.
>
> Regards
> Stefan