Chapter 781 Li Leshan
So Zhou Zhi had to give Li Qiyan a brief overview of the Unicode encoding work, and also talked about the urgency of the matter, and estimated the launch time of Microsoft's WINDOWS system in September. In five years, the DEADLINE for completing the large font library was set in 1994.
There is only one and a half years left, which is already quite urgent to complete such a big thing.
But listening to Zhou Zhi’s introduction, if this happens, Chinese character encoding will become the largest part of the world’s writing. One hundred thousand-level Chinese character encoding will be deployed in advance on the eve of the information age, whether it is for future development , or the inheritance of the past, there is no doubt that it is a great event with immeasurable merit.
Therefore, it was only natural that Zhou Zhi attracted the attention of the big shots and asked him to go to the West Flower Hall to explain the significance of the job.
This incident gave Li Qiyan a huge inspiration. To use a crude metaphor, he also needed a suitable certificate of nomination.
The mainland sent people to contact him. Now it seems that Director Wang is just the deputy driver, and Zhou Zhi is the real leader.
This is actually a soft ladder given by the above to test whether the big guys in Hong Kong have the willingness to climb up the ladder.
Zhou Zhi is now gradually feeling the connection, and he is inexplicably impressed by the above methods. This should be a typical example of not giving in on matters of principle, being flexible on non-principle issues, and using strategies and methods to do things.
After listening to Zhou Zhi’s introduction, Li Qiyan finally understood what was going on. He had completely misunderstood before, thinking that the purpose of Zhou Zhi and Director Wang’s coming was to kidnap his two children morally. This precious Dharma post.
Now it seems that this is not the case at all. If the big font library is really completed, it will be a big thing that can be remembered in history; at a small level, if it can be adopted by the WINDOWS system, This will have a profound impact on the academic status, economic interests, and industry influence of the eldest son of his family.
And by actively promoting this matter, I can show my firm determination to stand with the central government, achieve mutual understanding and trust for the next big things, and lay a solid foundation for cooperation.
The next big thing, to put it nicely, is called saving Hong Kong Island’s economy, but to put it more bluntly, it just means buying the bottom!
Li Qiyan is a man who has experienced many ups and downs of the times. In his eyes, the future of Hong Kong Island, which others do not think well or are not optimistic about, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Now it seems that it is no longer just taking advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune, and it is not that simple to be able to enjoy it for generations, but it is a situation where the wind and cloud are aligned, the fortunes intersect, and one step forward, the sea and the sky are brighter!
Zhou Zhi did not expect that Li Qiyan would have so many thoughts rolling around in his mind at this moment. Hearing that Li Leshan had already boarded the return plane, he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Professor Leshan is returning to Hong Kong today? Or is he here for us?"
Li Qiyan thought for a while and decided to be honest: "He is also under pressure. I heard Until now, there are still people who think that hieroglyphs are too complicated and what the input system is...a waste of resources. They think that we should focus on solving the problem first...the problem of the millennium bug. Do you know what the millennium bug is?"
Zhou Zhi smiled: "The Y2K problem is actually not complicated. Program faults are called bugs. This word It is exactly the same as the English word "worm."
"In order to save one byte of space during operation, previous computer systems and programs used four-digit years to represent two-digit years. For example, this year is 1993. Year, became 93 years in the system."
"This is not the case. What a big problem, but after the last day of 1999, it should have been two thousand years. However, because one byte was used less, this caused the program to make an error judgment. It was originally from 1999 to 2000, but now it has become The change from 99 to 0 was supposed to be one year, but instead it was minus one hundred years.”
"The information industry calls this problem Y2KBUG, which in Chinese is called Millennium Bug. As long as the time counter is extended by one byte, this problem can be solved."
"The solution doesn't sound difficult either. ?" Li Qiyan was a little confused: "Then why are they still doing this, boss? "Are you nervous?" Zhou Zhi said: "The main reason is that there are too many systems now, and there are too many applications running in the system, from BIOS, microcode, operating systems, databases, applications to hardware equipment, mechanical equipment, solidification chips, etc. All have this problem.”
"It is a huge task in itself to find out which software and hardware have such problems, determine how much impact these BUGs will have if they break out, and then correct them all through various technical means."
"Exactly, this incident in turn confirms that what we have to do now is How important it is. In order to save one byte of storage and computing space, it has now caused such a huge problem. So for a system, even if BUG itself is unavoidable, we must consider its scalability in advance. stability, modifiability, and compatibility.”
"For large fonts, even if we are currently unable to completely transplant them into the information system, we can still consider its design concept and implementation method in advance, prepare technical reserves and process documents, and structure the underlying protocol. Once When the conditions are ripe, it can be expanded and put into use immediately."
"Well said!" An excited voice sounded at the door: "This is the master of not forgetting the past!"
“Boss!” Li Qiyan was shocked Qixi: "Didn't you say you just came back today? Why so soon?"
"Brother." Li Lehai also stood up: "You haven't eaten yet? Uncle Long, please give me some bowls and chopsticks." "
" Completed yesterday I called and booked a ticket, and there happened to be a flight with the closest time. "Li Leshan is about forty or fifty years old, in the prime of life. He has a square face, but his eyes have become gentle and wise because of his education, which is unique to a scholar. Tolerance and self-cultivation.
Zhou Zhi had seen this kind of peaceful and wise look in the eyes of many people. The funniest thing was that Jiang Shuyi said that his look was the same, but Zhou Zhi himself couldn't believe it.
"Professor Leshan." Zhou Zhi also quickly stood up and greeted: "It takes sixteen hours to fly from the United States to Hong Kong Island now, right? How about you have a good rest today and we can come visit another day?"
"No, no, no, it's common for us to stay up late in this industry." Li Leshan stretched out his hand: "You are Zhou Zhi, right? I received calls from my father and Minister Hu yesterday. It’s really hard to believe that such an excellent and grand design was actually proposed by a high school graduate!”
“And you also used most of the dot matrix characters, scanning collection programs, and automatic recognition programs! The plan has been made, it’s quite amazing!”
Zhou Zhi quickly held hands with Li Leshan, who is now the light of the Chinese people.
Speaking of any circle, it is not big at the top. For example, Li Leshan is a figure who often drinks coffee with Lao Bi Lao Qiao.
This circle is full of legends. The most important thing is that the wealth aggregation effect is too obvious. There is a famous saying describing this industry in later generations, that is, as long as you stand on the wind, a pig can fly.
But there is a more powerful kind of character. They don't need to stand on the wind, because the wind that can blow up the pigs is created by them.
Faced with such a person, Zhou Zhi was very modest: "No, no, I was interested in the writing system at the beginning. Later, I was inspired by the ASCII code and came up with this immature idea."
(End of this chapter)