For what it's worth, my groovy spike seems to work with both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 character encodings. Not sure what will happen when a non zxing decoder tries to decode the UTF-8 encoded image though... probably varies depending on the device.
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Requires: groovy-1.7.6, jdk1.6.0_03, ./lib with zxing core-1.7.jar, javase-1.7.jar
// Javadocs: http://zxing.org/w/docs/javadoc/overview-summary.html
// Run with: groovy -cp "./lib/*" zxing.groovy
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
import com.google.zxing.*
import com.google.zxing.common.*
import com.google.zxing.client.j2se.*
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage
import javax.imageio.ImageIO
def class zxing {
def static main(def args) {
def filename = "./qrcode.png"
def data = "This is a test to see if I can encode and decode this data..."
def charset = "UTF-8" //"ISO-8859-1"
def hints = new Hashtable<EncodeHintType, String>([(EncodeHintType.CHARACTER_SET): charset])
writeQrCode(filename, data, charset, hints, 100, 100)
assert data == readQrCode(filename, charset, hints)
}
def static writeQrCode(def filename, def data, def charset, def hints, def width, def height) {
BitMatrix matrix = new MultiFormatWriter().encode(new String(data.getBytes(charset), charset), BarcodeFormat.QR_CODE, width, height, hints)
MatrixToImageWriter.writeToFile(matrix, filename.substring(filename.lastIndexOf('.')+1), new File(filename))
}
def static readQrCode(def filename, def charset, def hints) {
BinaryBitmap binaryBitmap = new BinaryBitmap(new HybridBinarizer(new BufferedImageLuminanceSource(ImageIO.read(new FileInputStream(filename)))))
Result result = new MultiFormatReader().decode(binaryBitmap, hints)
result.getText()
}
}