I have a QR code generated using zxing Java, and then scanned using some different types of bar code scanner devices. The text that I am encoding to form a qr-code is havin a ^ symbol. e.g. ->

abc   ^001 xyz

Now, when I scan it using the scanners online, google-lens the ^ symbol is there in the result, but with the scanner devices, which are supposed to scan these, don’t show this symbol in the result and it is just gone.
Surprisingly, the same scanner devices are able to scan out the ^ symbol if the qr-code was generated using the phpqrcode library.