Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1105 Free Software

Chapter 1105 Free Software
"So it can be used?" Leng Yulong asked.

"I don't think there's any problem." Zhou Zhi felt that this character card couldn't be more perfect. Although it was different from the standard bold character card made by Feng Xueshan, the font conversion logic had been completed long ago in the first phase of the project.

It’s just that at that time, Hei type was used as the benchmark, and fonts such as Kai type, Song Dynasty imitation, and official script were “calculated” through vector algorithms. Now we only need to change it to Kai type as the basis, or do a reverse engineering from Kai type to Hei type.

"Wait a minute." Wei Yixin said: "We also have another type of character cards, and they are not all in regular script."

As he spoke, he walked to a bookcase and took out a calligraphy card: "Look, there is also official script."

Chinese characters in China have a long history. The earliest were oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions. Later, they gradually changed. In the Qin Dynasty, they became small seal scripts. In the Han Dynasty, they became official scripts on bamboo slips and silk scripts.

There are several types of official script. The kind engraved on stone tablets is called "Zhang Li", which is the "national standard script".

According to different eras, Zhang Li can be divided into calligraphy styles such as Qin, Han, Wei and Jin, and each period will have some new ways of tying characters.

There is another type created by government officials for the purpose of writing quickly. The strokes have cursive and other styles, and also contain a large number of simple brushes. They are called "Xing Li" or "Cao Li".

Cao Li played a decisive role in the "regularization" of Chinese characters. Therefore, the two methods of tying characters in official script are recognized by the academic community, and the more recognized one among them is called "dingzi".

However, with the changes in writing habits of official script, many writing methods gradually became unnecessary during the process of regular script. When regular script developed to fully mature, the "ancient" knotting methods of many characters, and even the characters themselves , can only be found on the inscriptions and bamboo slips of the previous generation.

Zhou Zhi could tell at a glance that the two senior brothers did not convert this type of text into the standard regular script characters of "Chinese Character Sea", but retained these characters in their final form.

This extremely rigorous attitude towards work makes Zhou Zhi inexplicably impressed. There is no doubt that this method also reflects the historical information contained in some texts.

"Can the official script be recognized?" Hanwen Library must convert all the text into various fonts. The purpose of digitization itself is this. Leng Yulong is just worried that this will bring trouble to Zhou Zhi.

"No problem. At this time, the power of our radical recognition technology can be used. Reverse engineering is not difficult." Zhou Zhi didn't think that this matter could be difficult for any engineering technician: "But the two senior brothers are rigorous Zhou Zhi has to say 'admiration' for his style of work."

"It's no problem." Leng Yulong breathed a sigh of relief: "Then what do we need to do now?"

"The big work has been done for you, now you just need to scan the word cards and put them into the warehouse." Zhou Zhi smiled as if he had picked up a cornucopia: "The rest can be left to the program to complete."

"Is it that simple?" Wei Yixin could hardly believe it.

"Two senior brothers, can I borrow these two character cards so that we can go to the capital project team to conduct a feasibility verification?"

"The management procedures for borrowing and returning cards are too troublesome." Leng Yulong said: "Why don't we give you two copies in cash?"

"That would be even better, we can also observe and learn." Zhou Zhi was even more happy.

Leng Yulong and Wei Yixin sat down at the desk and opened the drawer, which was filled with blank word cards.

From the perspective of calligraphy, the regular script and official script of both men are extremely rigid. There is no change in the horizontal and vertical structures. They are almost pure repetitions.

In other words, the words of the two senior brothers are just like Feng Xueshan's bold calligraphy cards, almost reaching the same mechanical standard.

A brush for large characters and a pen for small characters. When they finished writing on the card, the two handed the card to Zhou Zhi.

Zhou Zhi turned the card over and said, "Brothers, please sign your names." "Huh? What kind of rule is this? Can anyone be traced?" Leng Yulong asked, "There is a card maker in front of you."

"That one is too standard." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Please ask the two senior brothers to sign on the back according to their own personalities."

"Why?" Wei Yixin was also curious.

"Because these two cards will become my collection." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "The kind that will be passed down to future generations."

"Hahahaha..." Leng Yulong couldn't help but laugh and wrote his signature casually: "Junior brother, you are so interesting!"

"I heard students say that they like autographed photos of film and television stars." Wei Yixin happily signed his name: "Thanks to my junior brother's luck, we also opened a plate of foreign meat today."

The Hanwen Library project also has a working group in the capital, but it is located in Huaqing Garden.

The work of the Capital Hanwen Library working group is not to carry out basic projects such as code acquisition and character conversion. Their work focuses on "environmental migration", which is to transplant Hanwen Library to various application systems and hardware.

This is also a very important part of technological transformation, and the most important one is the environmental application function of Sugon Supercomputer.

The reason for focusing on the Dawn supercomputer is because of a great idea called the "Light of God" - the GNU project.

The so-called GNU Project is a free software collective collaboration project publicly launched by Richard Stallman of MIT in [-].Its goal is to create a completely free operating system, namely GNU.

In [-], Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation to provide technical, legal and financial support for the GNU project.

When the GNU project began to gain success, some commercial companies began to intervene in development and technical support.

By 1990, the GNU project had developed software including a powerful text editor Emacs, a C language compiler GCC, a bash shell deployment scheduler, a gdb debugger, and most libraries and tools for UNIX systems.

The only important component that remains unfinished is the kernel known as the HURD operating system.

The situation changed in [-], when a programmer named Linus Torvalds wrote a UNIX-compatible Linux operating system kernel and released it under the terms of the GPL.

Soon, Linux spread widely, and countless programmers around the world began to "generate power for love" and participated in development and modification.

Last year, Linux was combined with other GNU software, and this completely free operating system was officially born.This operating system is often called 'GNU/Linux'.

Or Linux for short.

Although GNU has plans to develop its own kernel, because the combination of the Linux kernel and GNU software is so easy to use, it quickly became an "emerging force" and had a huge impact on software development around the world.

Many programmers began to gather spontaneously and began to develop free, high-quality, and easy-to-understand free software.

Yes, the core of GNU’s genius idea and the light of God lies in its GPL terms.

GPL, and General Public License, is a protocol certificate issued by the Free Software Foundation for computer software. Software that uses this certificate has a wonderful name - "free software".

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