[Solved] QRCode UTF-8 encoding with start BOM bytes

[Marco]

Hy,

In my web app in blazor .net 10 I use the TelerikQRCode component in one page set as follows:

The encoding is set to UTF-8 because the value contains special characters (such as emojis).

It seems that the component automatically adds some initial BOM bytes to the value, which is passed in a 'clean' way, i.e. without these initial bytes,

This creates a problem for me when I read the data with the scanner reader: I have no problems with the Honeywell scanner, but with the Datalogic scanner, when I read the automatically generated QR code, the string contains the following characters at the beginning: ï»¿

Is there a way to fix this issue directly with the Telerik component, without having to modify the configuration of all the Datalogic scanners?

Thanks,

Marco

[Dimo]

Hello Marco,

We will add the ability to set a UTF-8 QR Code encoding without a BOM in our next release in May 2026.

Regards,
Dimo
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