Remote Desktop Mobile mangles barcodes coming from scanner

Posted by sfonck on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by sfonck
Published on 2010-03-25T14:14:56Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 14:23 UTC
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Hi,

We have an application here using handhelds to scan barcodes. These handhelds are actually making a remote desktop session towards a server where the application runs. Works fine.

Now we have bought some new Motorola MC55's running 'Windows Mobile 6.1 Classic', and when using the application over remote desktop: it mangles the characters of the barcodes....

I already tried following things:

  • When scanning a barcode on the MC55 itself it is displayed correctly
  • When scanning a barcode via the remote desktop into a notepad session it is incorrect.
  • Played with all options of the 'Remote Desktop Mobile' - no result
  • Disabled 'autocorrect' and 'suggest words when entering text' on the input settings - no result

The strange things is:

  • a barcode which consists of only numbers gets scanned correctly
  • the mangled characters comes through in lower case
  • For some codes \t is mangled in between (should normally be entered after the barcode)

    e.g.:

  • 'PERIN4' becomes 'ERINp4'

  • 'MGZB' becomes 'GZB m'
  • 'BAK664' becomes 'AK664 b'
  • 'MAGBFA01' becomes 'AGBFmA01'
  • '5021879949500' gets scanned correctly

Anybody an idea how I could solve this problem?

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