diff --git a/htdocs/core/lib/barcode.lib.php b/htdocs/core/lib/barcode.lib.php
index 702d6673527..560f4b772b4 100644
--- a/htdocs/core/lib/barcode.lib.php
+++ b/htdocs/core/lib/barcode.lib.php
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ function barcode_encode_upc($upc, $encoding = "UPC")
  */
 function barcode_encode_genbarcode($code, $encoding)
 {
-	global $genbarcode_loc;
+	global $conf, $db, $genbarcode_loc;
 
 	// Clean parameters
 	if (preg_match("/^ean$/i", $encoding) && strlen($code) == 13) {
@@ -343,27 +343,34 @@ function barcode_encode_genbarcode($code, $encoding)
 	if (!$encoding) {
 		$encoding = "ANY";
 	}
-	$encoding = preg_replace("/[\\\|]/", "_", $encoding);
-	$code = preg_replace("/[\\\|]/", "_", $code);
+	$encoding = dol_string_nospecial($encoding, '_');
+	$code = dol_string_nospecial($code, "_");
 
 	$command = escapeshellarg($genbarcode_loc);
-	//$paramclear=" \"".str_replace("\"", "\\\"",$code)."\" \"".str_replace("\"", "\\\"",strtoupper($encoding))."\"";
 	$paramclear = " ".escapeshellarg($code)." ".escapeshellarg(strtoupper($encoding));
 
 	$fullcommandclear = $command." ".$paramclear." 2>&1";
 	//print $fullcommandclear."<br>\n";exit;
 
 	dol_syslog("Run command ".$fullcommandclear);
-	$fp = popen($fullcommandclear, "r");
-	if ($fp) {
-		$bars = fgets($fp, 1024);
-		$text = fgets($fp, 1024);
-		$encoding = fgets($fp, 1024);
-		pclose($fp);
+
+	$outputfile = $conf->user->dir_temp.'/genbarcode.tmp'; // File used with popen method
+
+	// Execute a CLI
+	include_once DOL_DOCUMENT_ROOT.'/core/class/utils.class.php';
+	$utils = new Utils($db);
+	$result = $utils->executeCLI($fullcommandclear, $outputfile);
+
+	if (!empty($result['output'])) {
+		$tmparr = explode("\n", $result['output']);
+		$bars = $tmparr[0];
+		$text = $tmparr[1];
+		$encoding = $tmparr[2];
 	} else {
-		dol_syslog("barcode.lib.php::barcode_encode_genbarcode failed to run popen ".$fullcommandclear, LOG_ERR);
+		dol_syslog("barcode.lib.php::barcode_encode_genbarcode failed to run ".$fullcommandclear, LOG_ERR);
 		return false;
 	}
+
 	//var_dump($bars);
 	$ret = array(
 		"bars" => trim($bars),