correct support of unicode texts #266 #236 #279
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One can easily test, that library draws wrong QR-codes for some special inputs like
new QRCode(elem "\x80");
new QRCode(elem, "\u0800"); // samaritan letter alaf
or any string, conatining chars with codes greater than 0xFFFF
new QRCode(elem, "🔥");
The reasons are
One should notice, that js support for unicode strings is pretty poor:
"🔥".length === 2, even though every human would say, this string has one 'character'.
P.S. qrcode.min.js should be updated also, i suppose, but i'm not sure which settings should be used, except smth like "preserve ie 6 compatibility"