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• Standardized and respected
  • UPC:     www.autoid.org/Primer/ean_upc.htm   www.indiana.edu/~atmat/units/barcodes/bar_r1.htm
  • Unicode: www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
  • URL: www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm
  • Smiles: www.daylight.com/dayhtml/doc/theory/theory.smiles.html

Standards are accepted because there is a compelling need, the standard is very specific, and there are devices that use the standard.