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Re:UsingQR – “Electronic” paper invoices using JSON and QR c... by userbinator on Saturday March 19, 2016 @04:21PM (#11320250)
Why JSON?

QR can store binary data. Something like BSON would make a lot more sense, given the tiny amount of storage in a QR code. Even ASN.1 seems more appropriate than the silly data->ASCII->ASCII-structured-format->binary encoding that's going on here, and admittedly in a lot of other transport formats too.

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Re:UsingQR – “Electronic” paper invoices using JSON and QR c... by arnarbi on Saturday March 19, 2016 @04:31PM (#11320291)
Not wanting to start flame wars, but consider CBOR instead of BSON (which only really makes sense if you want to integrate with MongoDB).

http://cbor.io/

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Re:UsingQR – “Electronic” paper invoices using JSON and QR c... by yrro on Saturday March 19, 2016 @09:55PM (#11321416)
I hadn't heard of this one before. I like that it has an RFC attached (RFC7049) which contains in the appendices comparisons to other similar systems such as MessagePack and BSON.
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