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Japanese UPC-numbers?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantPeak
Registered: May 25, 2007
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Hopefully, I'm posting in the right forum for this:

I have recently begun using DVD Profiler again and am currently adding my stuff.

Just a question about Japanese DVD:s. Doesn't seem like the ones I currently collecting (Kamen Rider and Super Sentai from Toei) is in the database, so I'm adding them locally (haven't really the time to fix up everything at the moment, there may be a later time for that.

What I do wonder about is the UPC for the DVD:s. They are somewhat strange, so I would like a heads up if they are comforming to the "legal" definition...

Kamen Rider 1 (episode 1-7 of the first series) have:

DSTD 06391 (above the barcode, I guess that's just something else that I can disregard)
Barcode
T4988101103959

Currently, I'm adding them as 4988101103959 (without the T which I don't know what it is.. ) Checked with the barcode generator, and it wanted (if I put in the first 10 characters) a 0 as control number, so I guess that these numbers are a bit strange.. or?

Edit: I checked again, and now I get a 9 if I input 498810110395 into the Bar Code Check Digit Calculator, so I guess that 4988101103959 (with dashes where appropiate) is correct?
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorJykke
Registered: March 13, 2007
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I do not know either what the T is for. Check digit is last digit printed below the barcode. So, if you want to verify what the check digit should be, then you enter all digits except the last one into the calculator. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the code, you just disregard the letter T and use ALL the digits after that.
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorVoltaire53
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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4988101103959 is correct; Japan uses the European 13 digit EAN-13 system, not the US 12 digit UPC. The first two digits for DVDs produced in Japan are 45 or 49 so this is fine.

FWIW when it begins 49 they rename it the JAN-13 but it uses exactly the same rules as EAN-13.

There was another thread with a T noted at the start but it seems to be extraneous and ignorable.
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