#48 DATAMATRIX --- java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character: i (0x0069)

[ashish kumar]

The Barcode4J I use:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.sf.barcode4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>barcode4j</artifactId>
        <version>2.1</version>
    </dependency>

When I try to generate the datamatrix barcode with following content:

<mp u="02BD2867FB024401A590D59D94E1FFAE" l="de-DE" v="024"></mp>

<o></o>

then the library throws the following exception:

The string pattern i.E.; causes this. I encountred the same error while using Zxing library. I have not found any open source solution so far which does not have this problem. Need real help here.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character: i (0x0069)
    at org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.datamatrix.DataMatrixHighLevelEncoder.illegalCharacter(DataMatrixHighLevelEncoder.java:1087)
    at org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.datamatrix.DataMatrixHighLevelEncoder.access$1400(DataMatrixHighLevelEncoder.java:34)
    at org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.datamatrix.DataMatrixHighLevelEncoder$EdifactEncoder.encodeChar(DataMatrixHighLevelEncoder.java:730)
    at org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.datamatrix.DataMatrixHighLevelEncoder$EdifactEncoder.encode(DataMatrixHighLevelEncoder.java:655)
    at org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.datamatrix.DataMatrixHighLevelEncoder.encodeHighLevel(DataMatrixHighLevelEncoder.java:134)
    at org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.datamatrix.DataMatrixLogicImpl.generateBarcodeLogic(DataMatrixLogicImpl.java:50)
    at org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.datamatrix.DataMatrixBean.generateBarcode(DataMatrixBean.java:128)
    at BarcodeGenerator.generateDatamatrixWithBarcode4jlib(BarcodeGenerator.java:47)
    at BarcodeGenerator.main(BarcodeGenerator.java:25)

[ashish kumar]

When I generate the Datamatrix with the attached content then it causes the exception.