Riding the wind of rebirth

"In my opinion, the new font library needs to meet several standards."

"First of all, the code point should be broad, and my opinion is based on 20;"

"Secondly, it is compatible with GB 2312 and GB 13000. It needs to provide a complete, clear and clear code mapping table to realize free conversion."

"The third is to make clear and detailed regulations on the use of the standard user-defined area and the standard reserved area. It is necessary to allow users to use the thirteen strokes and Chinese character reference components provided by the font library to create their own in the custom area. For the required Chinese characters, at the same time, strict standards and usage methods must be formulated for these newly entered Chinese characters, and at the same time, it must be upgraded in time to load the approved Chinese characters into the standard reserved area.”

"In this way, we can work together, which not only reduces our workload, but also gives the majority of users the opportunity to participate in the construction of the font library."

No one here has ever thought of this point. Now that Zhou Zhiyi brought it up, everyone's eyes light up. This kid's brains are really sharp!

"The last one, of course, is mandatory standards. We need a standard specification with strong binding force to increase visibility."

"Mandatory standards are the most well-known. If end users of Chinese software know that we have formulated an optimal Chinese character standard, they will definitely require software developers to implement it."

"In turn, software developers have to pay attention to standards and achieve this standard to improve their competitiveness."

"Is this standard...too high?" Mai Mingchuan scratched his forehead: "I estimate that 90.00% of the users will not be able to use it."

"As I said just now, if you don't need the complete works, you can choose subsets of different levels." Zhou Zhi said, "But this doesn't mean that the complete works should not be available."

"Director Mai, as far as I know, the logic algorithms used by electronic computers, including design concepts, are actually disciplines that have been matured for decades or even one or two hundred years ago. It was not until human beings achieved breakthroughs in transistor technology that those mature disciplines His mathematical achievements were applied to integrated circuits, forming today's information industry."

"Frege, Russell and Boole did not say that their research on mathematical logic was too high in the nineteenth century, and it would not be too late for future generations to study it when information technology sprouted in the 21st century ah?"

"Hahahahaha..." Mai Mingchuan laughed loudly: "Student Zhou Zhi is attacking the shield with the spear of the child, and he has learned good logic. Are you interested in studying in our computer department? This is the most talented person in the country today. Scarce, the most urgent demand for a good professional yo!"

"Don't think about it." Gu Lao waved his hand: "The first choice of Elbow is my Department of Chinese, followed by the Department of History, followed by the Department of Philosophy. He is a liberal arts student."

"Liberal arts students?" Now it was Mai Mingchuan's turn to be surprised: "Do liberal arts students have such rigorous logical thinking?"

"Director Mai just looks down on us." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Our ancient prose has a set of repetitive grammar, which in itself shows that we have already possessed a set of rigorous thinking logic."

"Our ancient schools of famous scholars, legalists, and political strategists are all masters in using this set of thinking. Just because we haven't listed it as a subject of knowledge and written a monograph, it doesn't mean that we don't have this knowledge, so we don't have it. people have studied."

"You're stretching the elbow," Gu Lao said with a smile: "But I think the idea is good, and our goal can indeed be set higher."

"Old Gu, you don't know how expensive the internal and external storage is now," Mai Mingchuan said: "The font library needs to be loaded into the internal memory so that it can be used quickly and conveniently. The current computer system generally only has eight megabytes of internal memory, and the operating system is loaded. , especially the current visualization system will consume a lot of memory, and there is not much left for the application."

"With the advancement of technology, these can always be solved." Gu Youwen said: "As Elbow said, we can have ideas, theories, and reserves first."

After speaking, he patted the pile of manuscripts: "With these things, it is completely feasible to standardize first and then apply!"

"Actually, this is the same as the platinum weights and measures in the Bureau of Standards and Measures," Tenzin said with a smile: "We might as well set the standard high, and then adjust measures to local conditions when it is applied."

"In fact, as long as there are standard dot matrix characters, it is not difficult to expand the font library." Li Hongjiang was a little excited: "Because no matter whether the Chinese characters are complex or simple, traditional or simplified, the basic strokes and radical structure are the same. "

"That is to say, we can use the stroke coupling technology of GB2312 and GB13000. With dot matrix characters, we can create four standard fonts: Hei Ti, Song Ti, Fang Song, and Kai Ti."

"Yes, this is the advantage of our Chinese characters." Zhou Zhi said: "On our manuscript, the other three fonts other than dot matrix characters are actually used for corrections by Professor Li and the others. If Professor Li thinks there is no problem If so, I will ask my classmates to write dot matrix characters in the future."

"Elbow, your classmate is also a high school student? Then is he interested in coming to our computer department?"

"Uh, my classmate is from a hydropower school, a vocational high school, and has graduated to work in the Manzhou Electric Power Company." Zhou Zhi said, "By the way, I have another request, Professor Li, if we use our manuscript, Among the researchers, I would like to add the names of my classmates."

"The only thing left to do now is to develop the scanning program and code." Li Hongjiang tapped his chin with two fingers, lost in thought: "It's still a matter of time, it would be best if we can catch up with the launch of GB13000. We have a better chance of convincing the standards committee ..."

"Actually, I have another idea," Zhou Zhi said.

"Tell me what you say." Mai Mingchuan now looks at the boy with a hundred pleasing eyes. In theory, this boy has opened everyone's minds and done the most difficult water grinding kung fu. Now there is only one left in the warehouse. and encoding issues.

As for these two things, the country already had considerable experience when writing GB2312 and GB13000.

"In fact, we can also operate in reverse."

"What reverse operation?"

"Develop a character recognition software." Zhou Zhi said: "One that can recognize Chinese characters, process them into dot matrix characters, and then automatically assign codes to Chinese characters according to certain rules such as radicals and radicals, and put them into the code points of the font library. software."

"Do you have any design ideas?" Li Hongjiang's interest came now. Chinese recognition is a good thing.

"The design idea of ​​this program is like this." Zhou Zhi said: "Because Chinese characters themselves have certain organizational rules, mainly square characters, so we can use these rules to scan and analyze them."

"Theoretically, each Chinese character, especially printed characters, has the same center of gravity position, central palace retraction and other characteristics in a book. We can obtain the average value through extensive sampling, and then use these average values ​​as the font of Chinese characters. The design parameters are assigned to the existing dot matrix characters to produce the same font as the classics."

"If we think about it in reverse, we can think that the text on each classic is a graphic calculated by the font algorithm, and this graphic itself covers all the boundaries of its dot matrix characters."

"If we decouple it according to the parameters scanned before, that is, do subtraction, it is theoretically possible to reduce the text and graphics into standard dot matrix characters."