積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> Compare how
> $ qrencode -t UTF8 x
> looks in
> $ emacs -nw -f shell # vs.
> $ emacs     -f shell
>
> As you can see in the latter it is quite mangled,
> perhaps beyond machine recognition.

It's not good in any case, really.  Here's the X version: