This method is useful for encoding Code128 with a specific code set to a bool array. As no other class overrides this method, this change only affects Code128Writer.
I don't know that there's a strong argument against making this method public. With this method protected, it is necessary to first encode as a BitMatrix, extract the first row, and the convert the resulting BitArray to a bool array. This all can be avoided if the method is made public.
* Replacing non ISO-8859-1 characters in input with '?' when neither a character set nor multi-eci encoding is selected.
* Changed code to raise an exception for characters not encodeable in ISO-8859-1
* - Added multi-eci decoding for PDF417
- Fixed issue that some multi-eci encoded PDF417 codes were missing ECIs
* Syntactic changes
* - Fixed issue that ECIs were not processed correctly in all allowed locations in binary encoded data as specified in section 5.5.3.2 of the spec
- Added verifying unit test
* - Added multi-eci encoding for PDF417
- Fixed issue that the PDF417 decoder incorrectly decoded input with a leading ECI and no explicit latch to TEXT encoding
* Added support for multiple character-ECIs
* - Changed from ArrayList<Byte> to ByteArrayOutputStream
- Added blank lines
* Improved performance for the general case (without ECI)
Quote of Martin's proposed changes to the spec:
The algorithm can be salvaged to be at least sound by making those changes, e.g. by adding to step e):
"1) If the next character cannot be encoded as X12, switch to ASCII mode and go to step b)."
(and renumbering the following sub-steps). Similarly step f):
"1) If the next character cannot be encoded as EDIFACT, switch to ASCII mode and go to step b)."
* - added code to suppress the terminator if the capacity of the version is less than 4 bit
- added test case
* - Removed code in MinimalEncoder that added Mode.TERMINATOR (is taken care of in Encoder.terminateBits)
- Removed the corresponding test case
* Updated test cases
* Improved documentation
* Changed documentation to not use an example with an unsupported character encoding
* Improved wording of comment
* - Simplified code
- Added space after comma in several places
* Added support for more character sets supported by CharacterSetECI
* Syntactic enhancements
* Changed instantiation of generic types to diamond style
* Updated documentation of the QR_COMPACT hint to explain the impact of setting the CHARACTER_SET hint .
* Changed whitespace
* Removed comment
* Fixed typos in comments
* Added text cases for KANJI and Shift_JS encoding
* Improved comments on Japanese language test cases
* Fixed bug
* Compacted code slightly
* Whitespace changes
* Deepend indent
