Permitted bar code characters

In the Resulting Bar Code column, these characters mean the following;

... indicates bar code can be a variable length
X indicates position of mandatory check character in the result
[X] indicates position of optional check character in the result 

This table shows the types of characters supported by each bar code type, and it also shows the permitted number of characters that each bar code type can contain.

Note 1: Codabar bar codes can begin and end with character A,B,C,D.

Note 2: Code 128 and UCC/EAN-128 bar codes can contain special non-ASCII characters, such as <FNC1>, from the Code 128 character set. 

Note 3: Interleaved 2-of-5 (ITF) bar codes must be an even length.

Bar code type Permitted
Characters		 Example
Data		 Resulting
Bar code
Code 128 ASCII ABC123-%?... ABC123-%?...X
Code 39 ASCII ABC123-%?... ABC123-%?...[X]
Code 93 ASCII ABC123-%?... ABC123-%?...XX
Codabar A,B,C,D,0-9,-$:/.+ A123456789...A A123456789...A
UCC/EAN-128 ASCII ABC123-%?... ABC123-%?...X
EAN-13 12 digits 999999999999 999999999999X
EAN-13 + 2 digits 12 digits + 2 digits 99999999999999 999999999999X99
EAN-13 + 5 digits 12 digits + 5 digits 9999999999999999 999999999999X99999
EAN-8 7 digits 9999999 9999999X
EAN-8 + 2 digits 7 digits + 2 digits 999999999 9999999X99
EAN-8 + 5 digits 7 digits + 2 digits 999999999999 9999999X99999
Bookland 12 digits + 5 digits 99999999999999999 999999999999X99999
ISSN 12 digits + 2 digits 99999999999999 999999999999999
ISBN 12 digits + 5 digits
12 digits		 99999999999999999
999999999999		 999999999999999999
9999999999999
Interleaved 2 of 5 (ITF) Digits 0123456789... 0123456789...[X]
POSTNET ZIP (5 digits)

ZIP+4 (9 digits)

DPBC (11 digits)

 99999

999999999

99999999999

 99999X

999999999X

99999999999X
UPC-A 11 digits 99999999999 99999999999X
UPC-A + 2 digits 11 digits + 2 digits 9999999999999 99999999999X99
UPC-A + 5 digits 11 digits + 5 digits 9999999999999999 99999999999X99999
UPC-E 6 digits 999999 99999X
UPC-E + 2 digits 6 digits + 2 digits 99999999 99999X99
UPC-E + 5 digits 6 digits + 5 digits 99999999999 99999X99999

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