[pimlottc]

Note that the URL also has to be encoded in two segments, so that the decimal part can use a more efficient QR encoding than the alphanumeric base URL.

I'm not sure that qrencode CLI tool will automatically do this for you.

> In a URL, the rest of the URL is not purely numeric, so actually seeing the benefits of this encoding requires using two segments:

> * one with the “boring” bits of the URL at the start, likely using the Binary mode

> * one with the big blob of base10 data, using the Numeric mode

[lifthrasiir]

> I'm not sure that qrencode CLI tool will automatically do this for you.

If I'm looking at the correct repository, it does [1].

[1] https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode/blob/master/split.c

[pimlottc]

You're right! I briefly searched the code but I missed seeing that since they don't use the term "segment".