locales problem. results depend on chosen OS keyboard layout.

[dakira]

I'm not sure if this is a general thing with barcodes. When I generate a barcode for "123/456" and read it with my barcode reader on an OS with the keyboard layout set to German, I get "123-456".

On the German keyboard there's a hyphen instead of the slash on the key to the left of the right shift key.

So do the barcodes actually encode keyboard codes instead of characters?