QR Code cannot include the control characters

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November 13, 2025
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I am trying to use control characters (\t, \r, \n) as delimiters in the QR code. However, the PDF generation process converts them into spaces. How can I prevent this?

Issue: The QR code is not interpreting control characters correctly.

Input: "line1 \r line2 \r line3"
Expected Output: A QR code that decodes to three separate lines.
Actual Output: "line1 line2 line3" (The \r characters are lost).

PDF Automation Station

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How are you doing the input? I used the following custom calculation script and it worked for me:

event.value="line1 \r line2 \r line3";

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ian_8519Author

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Upon using the barcode scanner, the output is formatted as a single string containing the values "line1 line2 line3". The qrcode.js library produces a QR code that encodes data as three distinct lines.