Chapter 746 Debate
This can solve the typesetting problem when entering antique books, as well as the printing and printing publishing problems!
Gu Lao also saw the value of this set of standards, but he couldn't help but worry: "If we occupy too many code positions, will it cause disputes?"
" Don't worry, Mr. Gu." Zhou Zhi was happy: "Not every nation is the Chinese nation. Let's put it this way - all the characters in the world are worth one stone, and we, the Chinese, have eight stones."
Gu Laoye also laughed: "We are holding a discussion here, elbow. Be serious!”
In fact, Zhou Zhi is really not kidding, because it was not until 2005 that the 100,000th character of Unicode was introduced and became one of the standards.
It was not until 2020 that Unicode 13.0 included a total of more than 143,000 characters.
Of course, Zhou Zhi has intervened. In the first version of Unicode, Zhou Zhi plans to put 70,000 to 80,000 Chinese characters into it.
It is a bit difficult for China to play a role in the International Organization for Standardization, but the Unicode Alliance is different. Even individuals who pay membership fees can play a role.
As long as Zhou Zhi can intervene in it and allow version 1.0 of this standard to be launched before the release of WIN95 and then adopted by Microsoft, the battle for Chinese character encoding standards in the information age will have to come to an end in advance.
Speaking of which, it's not that Microsoft itself doesn't want to use Unicode. On the contrary, Lao Bi is very concerned about this matter, but he just can't wait for it to come out, so he finally had to choose ISO/IEC10646.
The main reason is that although Unicode is good, it is something developed by an unofficial organization. Everyone lacks a sense of urgency. Otherwise, GBK will not be expanded to more than 70,000 Chinese characters by 2020, and Unicode There are still countless Chinese character code bits empty.
Zhou Zhi feels that China can provide this sense of urgency.
"Elbow...elbow?" came Mr. Gu's voice.
"Huh? What?" Zhou Zhi just came back to his senses, looking confused.
"Professor Li just talked about so many difficulties. Do you have any opinions?"
"Professor Li said that now that GB13000 is about to be released, and collecting 70,000 Chinese characters, the workload will be very huge. He said you said something has value, but Don’t be too hasty in implementing it now.”
“In fact, if the GB system can be expanded to eight more bits, it can also solve the problem of code bit capacity. The greater convenience is to solve the compatibility issue after future upgrades. ”
"There is also the issue of practical application. The usage scenarios of large font libraries are still limited. We still have to solve the existing problems first, and then solve the good ones."
"I don’t agree with this statement. Agree." Zhou Zhi is very straightforward: "Because the benchmark against GB is still ISO/IEC10646. This system itself is flawed. In addition to occupying the title of an international standardization organization, it is far behind the concept of Unicode. ”
"Even if we have GB13000 in the future, or even expand it to a GB standard with more code points, what we will get in the end is just a local standard, something we created ourselves behind closed doors. Apart from the domestic mandatory Outside of implementation, it is difficult to be accepted in other parts of the world.”
"If our new encoding can be recognized by the Unicode organization, then our large font library will become the standard that most computer software and hardware manufacturers around the world tend to use, and it will not only serve mainland my country, but also be used in Taiwan. , Hong Kong Island, Australia, Beijing, and Singapore are promoted and applied in various areas that use Chinese characters. . ”
“As for solving the problem of whether it exists or not, and then whether it is good or not, I agree.” Zhou Zhi argued rationally: “But we have already solved the problem of whether it exists or not when we launched GB2312. Solved.”
“The difference between me and Professor Li is actually that he thinks it’s still a problem. It’s not yet time to solve it, but I think it’s already here!” “Zhou Ziqi has never been engaged in this kind of work, so he may not have enough understanding of the difficulties involved.” Li Hongjiang said, “Just take so many Chinese characters. Creating raster digital characters is a difficult task. ”
"Are you okay?" Zhou Zhi said: "One hundred words a day, 36,500 words a year, not more than 70,000 words in two years?"
"How can it be so easy? It involves font design, proportion, retracting and unfolding the middle palace, making dot matrix, inputting on the computer, sorting out the coding..."
"Is this difficult?" Zhou Zhi wondered: "But I and I My classmate has spent more than a year writing a manuscript of 40,000 words?”
“What?” Li Hongjiang stood up in surprise: “You? And your classmate?” ”
Gu Youwen waved, and a participating student dragged a trailer over from the corner of the conference room, removed a cardboard box from it, opened it, and placed it in front of Li Hongjiang.
"This is what Yuzi brought this time. Xiao Li, please take a look and see if it fits."
"This is...this is..." Li Hongjiang looked at the sorting intervals marked on the box according to the strokes of the radicals. And the character list, after opening it, you will see neatly handwritten four-font standard characters. The one above is the man's standard dot matrix character, and the remaining three are Helvetica, Song Dynasty, and Fake Song Dynasty.
“How many have you done?” Li Hongjiang’s lips were trembling: “Elbow, you just said... forty thousand?”
“Yes, so far, we have done forty thousand. Thousand and thirty-three, Chinese character thirteen structure and standard components, as well as simplified We have finished converting 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 it. A baseline version of over 40,000 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."
"Then the expansion of the GB standard is imminent, and GB13000 has not yet been promoted , we are already lagging behind..." Li Hongjiang's words were full of bitterness.
“I think the difficulties mentioned by Professor Li just now are not difficult to solve.” Zhou Zhi said: “The key is whether we have determination and attitude.”
“If we have determination, So no matter what standard we use, we have to take the Chinese character library into consideration. Even if we can't do it now, we have to give it to the future. There is enough room for expansion. ”
“It is not difficult to build the database, nor is it difficult to code. The difficult thing is to formulate the standard. As long as the standard for the large font library is established, all work can be done to accommodate the expansion of all Chinese characters. Exploring ideas and methods under the premise, I personally feel that its significance is far greater than the current GB13000. ”
"GB13000, we are still at the idea of treating the headache, fixing the pain, and first creating something that can be used. This idea itself is problematic."
"Our goal should be from the beginning. It falls on building a Chinese font library that is universal, compatible, scalable, and has a large number of code points that can be used all over the world, and strives to make it the only international standard like ASCII. ”
"As for the upcoming GB13000, and even the previous GB2312, they are just subsets of this large font library in different application scenarios. In the future, we can also define several subsets to meet the needs of ordinary users, government agencies, and professional publishers. It can be used by large libraries to achieve both efficiency optimization and cost reduction. ”
(End of this chapter)