Riding the wind of rebirth

Leng Yulong nodded: "We have encountered similar interference before."

Wei Yixin said: "Island countries have also expressed their desire to cooperate with us and want to co-edit a "Sino-Japanese Character Ocean" with us. The number of words should exceed the "Chinese Character Ocean" we are currently compiling."

"Then do we agree?" Zhou Zhi asked quickly: "We really don't know about this situation."

"Our opinion is to do it alone." Wei Yixin said: "Anyway, we have already completed more than 7000 words, and we are not short of this."

"Now it seems that they are so enthusiastic about our Hanwen library. They are really trying to steal our patented software package." Gu Kailai looked at Zhou Zhi and said, "Maybe they want to kill the rabbit!"

When Zhou Zhi thought about the connection between the two things, it was really possible.

"If it can be done independently, I also think it is better to complete it independently." Zhou Zhi said: "And I now find that the combination of dictionary compilation and font compilation can not only save a lot of preliminary preparation for the font work, but also save a lot of preparation work. Being able to digitize the dictionary first and become the first most reasonable digital result after the lexicon is built is a twin project that complements each other."

"Technically, Sichuan University Computer Center has solved almost all the problems. The current bottleneck is mainly the large amount of original work-the part of building character codes and cards."

"It just so happens that this part of the work, both in terms of methods and results, is quite similar to our dictionary compilation work."

"If our method is similar, then we can use the character cards prepared for dictionary compilation and transfer them into the Han character library through the scanning recognition program, and our work progress will be greatly accelerated."

"During this period of time, the two senior brothers can continue the next step of work, compiling Japanese and Korean Chinese characters."

"By the time you finish editing, our work will be almost complete. After completing the follow-up work, we can immediately start digital typesetting and publishing."

"This is not only the fruit of the hard work of two senior brothers over the years, but it can also immediately realize the transformation of results, digital transcoding, digital typesetting, and digital publishing. "Chinese Character Sea" will be the first digital typesetting dictionary in my country, and it is also the largest The significance of a dictionary will be epoch-making."

Gu Kailai, Leng Yulong, and Wei Yixin looked at each other. Do young people today think so fast? !

The compilation work of "Chinese Character Ocean" was very difficult, but it was just a grind. After eight years of working step by step, the biggest work has been completed.

What is more difficult is the transformation, which is to publish this work.

Because there are too many new characters in it, if traditional type printing is used, two sets of large and small type characters must be produced. More than 7000 Chinese characters require 17 characters, which is 16 more than the current traditional [-] type characters. .

No matter which publisher this work is thrown to, the publisher will cry.

But what if it is carried out simultaneously with the second and third phases of the Hanwen Library?
The day the dictionary is made, the wording is also completed simultaneously, and you can immediately enter the stage of typesetting, printing, publishing and distribution!

Moreover, the subsequent work will be greatly simplified and convenient compared with traditional methods.

This is the power of digitalization!
Leng Yulong couldn't sit still anymore and stood up: "Let's go to the ministry and report to the team leader on this new situation."

"Don't stop ..." Zhou Zhi quickly grabbed Leng Yulong: "Let's ask the two brothers to help us introduce the compilation ideas and methods of" Chinese Character Sea ", and we have to take the brothers' card tables to try , to see if it is really suitable for our existing scanning and recognition program." "Yes." Leng Yulong couldn't help but be surprised: "I'm a little lost, mainly because I was a little excited when I heard this little junior brother's gameplay."

"That's how your senior brother's character is." Gu Kailai smiled and introduced to Zhou Zhi: "My senior uncle gave him the name Lengquan back then. Adding his surname, we called him Leng Lengquan. I hope he can be more calm than others."

"So that's it." Zhou Zhi thought the stories of his seniors were a bit interesting.

"In the end, I still have the same temper." Gu Kailai laughed at his junior brother.

"Let's get down to business." Wei Yixin said with a smile: "What my junior brother just said, the concept of China, Japan and Korea, we are actually using it in "Chinese Character Sea"."

"Really?" Zhou Zhi was pleasantly surprised: "I thought a [-]-word dictionary couldn't be that simple!"

Leng Yuquan smiled and said: ""Chinese Character Ocean" mainly consists of two parts: one part is collected from existing Chinese dictionaries, such as "Shuowen Jiezi", "Yupian", "Guangyun", "Jiyun", and "Kangxi Dictionary" ”, “Chinese Dictionary” and other books;”

"The other part is the words that have been lost in the reference books of the past and should be included."

"Among them are difficult characters from Buddhist scriptures, difficult characters from Taoism and Tibet, common characters from Dunhuang, common characters from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, dialect characters, characters newly created by science and technology, as well as characters that are still used in names of people and places today." Wei Yixin added: "In addition, popular characters in Taiwan and Hong Kong , common characters and dialect characters in the Pushima area, as well as Chinese characters popular in the island countries, Goryeo, Shindo and other countries, are also included in the book."

The more Zhou Zhi listened, the more excited he became. If this thing could be used, Hanwen Library could be completed in the third phase!

"What about the editing method?" This time it was his turn to become unable to sit still.

The compilation method is very important. If the compilation method is too different from the method used by Hanwen Library and logically cannot be transcoded, then only word cards can be used.

But if the two are interoperable, the arrangement logic of the font card and the arrangement logic of the font code points will be similar, which can reduce a lot of workload in the process of transcoding and warehousing.

"As for the writing style, the characters in "Chinese Character Ocean" are still arranged according to the traditional radical division. Characters with the same radical are arranged according to the number of strokes, and characters with the same stroke are arranged according to the stroke order;"

"The establishment of radicals is based on the four 210 volumes of the Kangxi Dictionary, and will be deleted and separated as appropriate, resulting in a total of 210 volumes. Where is your Han character library?"

"Ours is also based on the 210 four volumes of the "Kangxi Dictionary", but we also absorb Wangma's root compilation method. In the end, there are 270 six radicals, of which 250 nine already exist in Wangma, and the remaining [-] , which we find in other non-basic Chinese characters.”

"Beautiful!" Wei Yixin expressed his appreciation: "The radicals and roots also conform to the structure of Chinese characters. For example, the word "福" for blessing is composed of three parts in oracle bone inscriptions. The first is the part next to the word "shi", and then It means altar, and then there is the right part, which is a ritual vessel such as Li and He. There are two hands underneath. The whole word means holding the ritual vessel in both hands and placing it on the altar, hoping to be blessed by the ancestors. mean."

"Yes, back to the origin of Chinese characters, the strokes are like atoms, the roots are like molecules, and the final organized Chinese system is the organism." Leng Yulong said: "This is a very scientific induction method, which is better than the traditional radicals Adding strokes is more advanced.”

"But this method is not concise enough." Zhou Zhi said: "So as a dictionary for daily use, it is more convenient to follow the radical strokes."