document alternate formatting

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Riccardo Casatta 2021-04-09 18:24:27 +02:00
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@ -354,10 +354,14 @@ impl Address {
}
/// Creates a string optimized to be encoded in QR codes, meaning it becomes uppercase if bech32.
///
/// Quoting BIP 173 "inside QR codes uppercase SHOULD be used, as those permit the use of
/// alphanumeric mode, which is 45% more compact than the normal byte mode."
/// Even inside Bitcoin URI may be more efficient to use the uppercase address since in QR codes
/// encoding modes can be mixed as needed within a QR symbol.
///
/// This `fn` is a shorthand of the alternate formatting `{:#}` which should be preferred in most
/// cases because it avoids the [String] allocation.
pub fn to_qr_string(&self) -> String {
format!("{:#}", self)
}