Riding the wind of rebirth

This can solve the typesetting problem when the antique book is entered, as well as the printing and printing publishing problem!
Gu Lao also saw the value of this set of standards, but he couldn't help worrying: "If we occupy too many code points, will it cause disputes?"

"Don't worry about Mr. Gu." Zhou Zhi was delighted: "Not every nation is a Chinese nation. Let's put it this way—all the characters in the world count as one stone, and I, China, own eight buckets."

Gu Lao also smiled: "This is a discussion meeting, elbow, you should be serious!"

In fact, Zhou Zhi is not joking, because until [-], the [-]th character of Unicode was introduced as one of the standards.

And until 13.0, Unicode 14 only included a total of more than 3000 characters.

Of course, now that Zhou Zhi has intervened, the first version of Unicode, Zhou Zhi intends to insert [-] to [-] Chinese characters in it.

It is a bit difficult for China to play a role in the International Organization for Standardization, but the Unicode Consortium is different. Even individuals who pay membership fees can play a role.

As long as Zhou Zhi can intervene in it, so that version 1.0 of this standard is launched before the release of WIN95, and then adopted by Microsoft, the battle for Chinese character encoding standards in the information age will come to an early end.

It is not that Microsoft itself does not want to use Unicode. On the contrary, Lao Bi is very concerned about this matter, but he can't wait for it to come out, so he has to choose ISO/IEC 10646 in the end.

The main reason is that although Unicode is good, it belongs to unofficial organizations. Everyone lacks a sense of urgency. Otherwise, by 2020, GBK will expand to more than 7 Chinese characters, and Unicode still has countless Chinese characters. The code point is left blank.

Zhou Zhi feels that China can provide this sense of urgency.

"Elbow... Elbow?" Gu Lao's voice came.

"Ah? What?" Zhou Zhi finally came back to his senses with a dazed expression on his face.

"Professor Li just talked about so many difficulties, do you have any comments?"

"Professor Li said that GB13000 is about to be released, and the workload of collecting [-] Chinese characters will be huge. He said that what you said is valuable, but it should not be carried out too hastily now."

"In fact, if the GB system agrees to expand to eight more bits, it can also solve the problem of code bit capacity. The greater convenience is to solve the compatibility problem after future upgrades."

"There is also the problem of practical application. The usage scenarios of large fonts are still limited. We still need to solve the problem first, and then solve the problem of whether it is good or not."

"I don't agree with this statement." Zhou Zhi said bluntly: "Because the benchmark against GB, in the final analysis, is still ISO/IEC 10646. This system itself has flaws. Apart from occupying the title of an international standardization organization, it is far Behind the idea of ​​Unicode."

"Even if we have GB13000 in the future, and even expand it to a GB standard with more code points, what we finally get is just a local standard, something we created behind closed doors. It is difficult to be accepted in other parts of the world other than to promote it."

"If our new code can be recognized by the Unicode organization, then our large font library will become the standard that most computer software and hardware manufacturers in the world tend to use, and it will not only serve the mainland of my country, but also be used in Taiwan and Island. , Hong Kong Island, Macau, Beijing, and Singapore to promote applications in regions that use Chinese characters."

"As for solving the problem of availability first, and then solving the problem of whether it is good or not, I agree with this." Zhou Zhi argues: "But the problem of whether there is, we have already solved it when we launched GB2312."

"My disagreement with Professor Li is actually when he thinks it's time to resolve it, but I think it's already time!"

"Elbow, you have never been engaged in this kind of work, and you may not have enough understanding of the difficulties." Li Hongjiang said: "Take so many Chinese characters as an example, just creating a grid of digital characters is a troublesome job."

"Is it alright?" Zhou Zhi said, "One hundred words a day, 7 words a year, and more than [-] words in two years?"

"Where is it so easy? It involves font design, high and low proportions, retracting the middle palace, making dot matrix, inputting on the computer, sorting out the code..."

"These are difficult?" Zhou Zhi wondered, "But my classmates and I have spent more than a year to make a [-]-word manuscript paper?"

"What?" Li Hongjiang stood up in surprise: "You? With your classmate?!"

Gu Youwen beckoned, and a student participating in the meeting dragged a trailer from the corner of the conference room, moved a cardboard box from it, opened it, and put it in front of Li Hongjiang.

"This is what Elbow brought this time, Xiao Li, take a look and see if it suits you."

"This is... this is..." Li Hongjiang looked at the list of sorting intervals and character codes marked on the box according to the strokes and radicals. After opening it, he saw neatly handwritten four-font standard characters. Do the above one, It is the standard dot-matrix characters of this man, and the remaining three are black body, Song typeface, and imitation Song typeface.

"How much have you done?" Li Hongjiang's lips trembled a little: "You just said... [-], elbow?"

"Yes, so far, we have completed 33 Chinese characters. We have completed the thirteen structures and standard components, as well as simplified Chinese characters, and half of the "Kangxi Dictionary" has been completed."

"Now we only need a program similar to a machine-readable card to scan these into the information system, and we have a baseline version of more than 4 words."

"Whether we use GB or Unicode, we can incorporate these dot matrix characters into code points through encoding to form a new large font library."

"The expansion of the GB standard is imminent, and GB13000 has fallen behind before it is promoted..." Li Hongjiang's words were full of bitterness.

"I don't think the difficulties that Professor Li mentioned just now are easy to solve." Zhou Zhi said, "The key is whether we have the determination and attitude."

"If we are determined, then no matter what standard we use, we must take the Huaxia Character Library into consideration. Even if we can't do it now, we must leave enough room for future expansion."

"It's not difficult to build a database, and it's not difficult to code. What's difficult is the formulation of standards. As long as the standards for large fonts are formulated, all work can be carried out to accommodate all Chinese characters. I personally think that it is meaningful to explore ideas and methods under this premise. Much larger than the current GB13000."

"GB13000 is still on the idea of ​​treating headaches and feet, and first making a usable one. This idea itself is problematic."

"Our goal should be to build a universal, compatible, scalable, and massive Chinese character library that can be used all over the world from the very beginning, and strive to make it the only international common standard just like ASCII. .”

"As for the upcoming GB13000 and even the previous GB2312, it is only a subset of this large font library in different application scenarios. In the future, we can define several subsets to meet the needs of ordinary users, government agencies, professional publishing houses, and large Library use, achieving both efficiency optimization and cost reduction.”