Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 743 New Scheme

"According to Ren Fang's "Shu Yi Ji" Lu Ju said Xiong, Shui Ju said Neng, we can also think of another legend."

"It is said that Dayu controlled the water, married Tu Shan, and set up a drum on the construction site, so that Tu Shan could hear the sound of the drum and bring food."

"Afterwards, Dayu turned into a big bear and drove up the mountain. As a result, one day he worked so hard that the flying stone hit the drum, but Dayu didn't notice it."

"Ms. Tu Shan heard the sound of drums delivering food, and found that her husband was actually a big bear. He was so frightened that he turned into a stone statue."

"Da Yu was very sad, and told the stone statue that you can turn into a stone statue, and leave your son to me."

"After speaking, the belly of the stone statue suddenly opened, and a child fell out of the stone statue. This is the origin of the name 'Qi'."

This series of stories and knowledge made the bosses of the computer department on the opposite side listen with great interest, Zhou Zhi then said: "Does this legend also show that Dayu also inherited Gun's ability to transform into a bear or a bear (Ni )?"

"And did Dayu finally decide to break the abdication system and pass the world to his son because he felt his father's miserable fate?"

"Can it be regarded as a side evidence, proving that the legend of Yu's flood control happened in the tribal alliance era when pottery, stone and bone tools were used together?"

"So everyone, if the two rare characters Xiong (Ni) and (bone system) really disappear, will it cause the loss of some information on the Chinese civilization mentioned above? Will there be some unanswerable mysteries in the future? ? Will it cause confusion for our children and grandchildren?"

"In the past, due to limited conditions, the education level of Chinese people was not high. The rapid popularization of characters and the eradication of illiteracy were the top priority. Therefore, the promotion of simplified characters was inevitable. GB2312 also played a huge role."

"But if the conditions are clearly allowed now, if we have the opportunity to collect and record all the words, but we still do nothing, let these words disappear in the long river of history, and not leave them to our children and grandchildren , will it be a kind of future regret?"

"If our descendants, because of us, no longer know the two characters Xiong (Ni) and (bone system) and the historical and cultural information contained in these two characters, then should we be regarded as... National sinner?!"

"Before the earliest information technology came out, some Westerners believed that Chinese characters would die because of the birth of computer technology."

"After our efforts, we have GB2312 Chinese character encoding, which proves to those people that they were pure nonsense before."

"In my opinion, it is precisely because of the development of information technology that the problem of difficulty in writing and memorizing Chinese characters has been solved, and the popularization and application of Chinese characters may even bring about innovative changes."

"GB2312 proves that we can do it, and GB 13000 proves that we can do better, so why don't we strike while the iron is hot, and simply make it the ultimate in one go?"

"What does it mean to be the ultimate?" Li Hongjiang no longer dared to underestimate the child in front of him. He really didn't know these things carried in Chinese characters, or he didn't pay attention to them at all.

This is also a common imagination in Chinese academic circles today. In the stage of crazy catch-up, how dare to pursue perfection?It is sufficient at this stage, and solving current problems is already the highest goal of most science and engineering scientists.

"Achieve the ultimate meaning, that is, the new font code, to be fully compatible with the history, the current collection, and expand in the future." Zhou Zhi is not at all afraid: "The meaning of the history is fully compatible, that is, the new font can be fully compatible GB2312 and GB13000 codes. Text information that has been entered with these two codes can also be completely read out with the new code.”

"The current full collection refers to the Chinese characters that we currently know, including the simplified characters of the mainland, the traditional characters of Baodao, Hong Kong, Macao, and Xindao, as well as some Chinese characters used by island countries, North Korea and South Korea, all of which are adopted into the new coding system. Come."

"The meaning of expanding in the future is to leave enough redundant coding space for the font library to prepare for the collection of more characters and symbols in the future." Zhou Zhi talked eloquently: "Master Dan Zeng said just now, how big is our country? In a nation of nations, many nations have their own scripts, and these scripts are also the treasures of our Chinese family."

"Therefore, we need to leave enough space for the expansion of this font library, so that when the time is right in the future, we can also include the characters of these ethnic minorities."

"This is my idea, about the Huaxia Standard Large Font Library."

"Uh...Student Zhou Zhi." Li Hongjiang is also a bachelor, "I apologize to you, and I also apologize to Mr. Gu and Master Dan Zeng. I really didn't realize the importance of this issue before."

"But as I said before, GB 13000 is designed according to ISO/IEC 1064, and the code points of the universal multi-octet coded character set are only more than 2. It is like a farm with so many chicken cages. Can't hold so many chickens as you said?"

"So this extra eight-bit coded character set is problematic and not suitable for China's needs, so why do we have to make do with it?" Zhou Zhi asked rhetorically.

"If you don't use this, which one should you use?" Li Hongjiang didn't think that Zhou Zhi was making trouble out of no reason. Being able to ask a question is not his job. The key is that after asking a question, you have to be able to solve it.

"Why not use UNICODE?"

"UNICODE?" Li Hongjiang thought for a while: "The horoscope for UNICODE hasn't been written yet, has it? The international standard hasn't come out yet, where can we get a reference?"

The Chinese translation of Unicode, called Unicode, also known as Universal Code and Unicode, is an industry standard in the field of computer science developed by the Unicode Consortium, mainly including character sets and encoding schemes.

Unicode was created to solve the limitations of traditional character encoding schemes. It sets a unified and unique binary encoding for each character in each language to meet the needs of cross-language and cross-platform text conversion and processing. Require.

The original purpose of Unicode design is to create a character encoding scheme that can accommodate all characters and symbols in the world.

Its design idea is to map all characters with numbers 0-0x10FFFF, which can accommodate up to 1114112 characters, or 1114112 code points.

The UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 that everyone is familiar with in later generations are actually encoding schemes for converting numbers into program data.

Of course, these code points are not randomly used, but the intervals are specified. For example, the intervals used for Chinese characters in the previous life are 3400-4DBF, 4E00-9FFF, and 20000-3FFFF. interval.

This just has more than 100 code points, more than enough to hold all Chinese characters.

Because there is no upper limit, UTF can theoretically continue to expand.

Of course, judging from the experience of the previous life, there is no need for this at all, it is enough.

(End of this chapter)