I think the pattern has a fixed location that is defined by the version. And yeah, that was my understanding as well, you just skip the corresponding bits when doing the "zigzag reading". But I'd also like to see an example, in particular as that would be different from how the other "large" alignment patterns are handled.
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I also saw this. So one would then simply leave this part out on the way down? Is the alignment pattern always on the same location? I guess so.
I think the pattern has a fixed location that is defined by the version. And yeah, that was my understanding as well, you just skip the corresponding bits when doing the "zigzag reading". But I'd also like to see an example, in particular as that would be different from how the other "large" alignment patterns are handled.
Correct, the alignment patterns only depend on the version, not the error correction level or text encoding.
Source: I read the spec and wrote my own QR encoder library.