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EAN-13 centre guard starts with a bar · case 04

Scanners reject every symbol because the centre guard pattern is inverted.

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Case contract

Encode a 13-character string of ASCII digits (the check digit is taken as given, not verified) as the 95-module EAN-13 pattern: start guard 101, six left digits in L or G sets chosen by the parity row of the leading digit, centre guard 01010, six right digits in the R set, end guard 101. R is the bitwise complement of L and G is R reversed. Anything else returns None.

Why this case matters

Retail, logistics, pharmacy and document workflows depend on encoders that produce exactly the module pattern, code-set switches, separators and quiet zones scanners expect; one misplaced module or separator makes a label unreadable or, worse, scan as different data.

One recorded failure

Sample boundary fixture

This sample comes from the broken implementation of a controlled reproducer.

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
regression: centre guard pattern 0	`"10100010110110111000010101101110010111001101110101110011010111001101100100100011101001100110101"`	`"10100010110110111000010101101110010111001101101010110011010111001101100100100011101001100110101"`	Failed

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