title: Is UTF-8 the encoding of choice for QR-codes with non ASCII chars by now?
body: <p>Google uses UTF-8 it as default for their very popular encoder. From what I can see they don't even add the byte order mark.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is that most scanners still seem to use JIS8 (QR 2000) instead of iso-8859 (QR 2005) as default, so it mostly does not work to use iso-8859 for encoding.</p>
  
  <p>It seems like utf-8 is the only choice even if it is against the specification.</p>
  
  <p>edit: I will go with utf-8 without ECI and without BOM. Against all spec and spirit but works best at the moment.</p>