Zxing wrong encoding

[danielmarschall]

I noticed that in my 28 test tickets, I have 6 tickets which do not work with this library.

I have one ticket where it works if I present the Aztec code from the App main screen, but it does not work if I present the Aztec code from the App "PDF" view (for the same ticket!). So there seems to be a problem with the Aztec code itself and not the ticket.

This python library can decode both of them, but the following fix was required. I think you should this in NodeJS too:

def fix_zxing(data):
    """
    ZXing parser seems to return utf-8 encoded binary data.
    See also http://code.google.com/p/zxing/issues/detail?id=1260#c4
    """
    data = data.decode('utf-8').encode('latin1')
    # zxing parsing also adds a newline to the end of the file. remove that.
    if data.endswith(b'\n'):
      data = data[:-1]
    return data

EDIT: This fix should only be applied if there was a failure, and this would be the 2nd try then.