Chapter 847 Look at both sides of the matter
“The saying that Principal Zhao and Teacher Xu have heard is that Western characters only require twenty-six letters, plus numbers and some symbols, to form a system that can meet the basic needs of information systems. The required ASCII collection and a distributed keyboard built on it, with just over two hundred characters, can already meet the basic needs of Western information systems."
"And our Chinese ones. For Chinese characters, the most commonly used character sets are more than 5,000. Therefore, the Chinese character system is far less simple than the West. In the information age, it will be ruthlessly eliminated due to factors such as complex input and output and too large character libraries. "
" However, these people are just frogs in the well.”
“They just saw these disadvantages and took it for granted without thinking carefully.”
"They have never thought about it at all. So many hieroglyphics are actually huge intangible cultural wealth unique to our nation."
"Many people are talking about computer technology now. In fact, this statement is not accurate. Generally speaking, it should be called information technology, and what we are experiencing now is a revolution in information technology."
"What is it called? What about information technology? " Zhou Zhi smiled: "In the final analysis, it is information-related technology, including information input, storage, processing, and output. "
"Independent units with these capabilities are called information units. . ”
“And countless such units are interconnected to form a huge information network.”
"In fact, each of us can be regarded as an information unit, and our society is an information network."
"If we understand it from this level, which nation has the most advanced information technology in history? The question is about the Chinese nation. Because our thousands of years of history have been very well recorded through writing and language. "
"As a carrier of information, which language can withstand the test of the longest time. ? There is no doubt that it is the same structure and application system of Chinese characters from the beginning of Oracle to the present. "
"What does this mean? It shows that our nation's Chinese character system can stand the test of time. ”
“So the information age will not be our disaster, on the contrary, it will be our huge opportunity.”
"Any information has a concept of information volume, which is to use the shortest byte unit to express the richest and most accurate meaning."
"Which language has the largest unit information capacity? There is no doubt that it is still Chinese. "
"The veterans of the Unicode Organization and Microsoft are sensible people. They know this concept, so they are very enthusiastic about pursuing it. Cooperate with us."
"Everything has two sides. The problem with Chinese characters is that they have a large number of characters and are difficult to master. The advantages of Chinese characters are that once mastered, they are simple to express, have a large amount of information, and are efficient to use. ”
“So when we look at the problem, we cannot only look at the disadvantages and ignore the advantages.”
"We have to admit that in terms of programming and mathematical foundations, Western alphabet scripts have unique advantages. However, at the advanced application level, the advantages of the Chinese character system are highlighted."
"What makes everyone lose confidence , mainly due to the current difficulty in inputting and outputting Chinese characters in the information system, and also the fact that the font library takes up too much space, resulting in a shortage of information system resources. "
"The biggest difference between us and those who look down on Chinese characters. ,that is They think this problem is unsolvable, but we believe that this problem is completely solvable. "First of all, the font problem, indeed, the font requires a lot of space, but we also need to see the rapid development of information technology."
“The capacity of today’s storage devices is growing exponentially over time. Soon we will be able to see more than ten gigabytes, tens of hundreds of gigabytes, or even thousands of gigabytes of storage. The emergence of equipment."
"By that time, the space occupied by the font library can only be described as insignificant."
"The next step is the problem of input and output. The output is very simple. Regardless of the monitor or the printer, as long as it is correctly Commands and text output processing are no more complicated than images.”
“The key is input, and the difficulty of input can actually be understood if we think about it carefully. This is because we insist on using the traditional ASCII distributed keyboard for Chinese character output. caused by. "
"If we change the approach, for example, if one day the audio reading technology matures, can we abandon the traditional keyboard and use voice to input Chinese characters? By then, the word association function of Chinese characters will be available again? It has become a major advantage of our input.”
“Even if we don’t talk about such advanced methods, even if we use traditional keyboards, we have now come up with extremely fast input methods, represented by Wangma. Root input method. ”
"The fastest typist can type nearly two hundred words per minute. This speed is close to our normal speaking speed."
"We can even assert that the current situation is: input through word roots With this method, you can already get an input speed as fast as speaking. And because input is done through character roots in special positions, there is no problem of not being able to input unfamiliar characters if they don’t recognize them.”
“The situation in the future is: after the input method of the information system evolves to voice. , the use of information systems has evolved to the competitive application layer In the future, the unique advantages of the Chinese character system will be brought into full play.”
“At that time, we will find that software that uses Chinese to communicate and transmit information will be far better than software that uses other languages. Have stronger vitality ”
<. br>"With this understanding, we can realize that we are now laying a solid foundation and are determined to seek an international protocol at the bottom of the protocol that can accommodate all our Chinese character codes and has multi-language scalability and global versatility. The existence of standard protocols.”
"But isn't this too ambitious?" It seems that the godfather has done a lot of research this month and has been able to ask some key questions: "Don't you mean that our information industry is still in the catching-up stage? And according to our usual The approach, the catch-up stage, is to first solve the problems that exist, and then solve the problems that are good or not, right?”
"Yes, godfather, what you said is also a routine practice." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Before Shu University proposed to cooperate with the alliance to develop the Unicode protocol, we also did this, and even already Two font versions were launched in succession."
"But there are huge engineering pitfalls in that way of working. If it is not considered thoroughly, it will cause huge troubles in the future. "We have encountered real-life examples in this regard"
"Really?" Years?" Godfather asked: "Is it a problem with the supercomputer?"
"No," Zhou Zhi knew some inside information in this regard, and he was naturally very proud: "I just want to tell you some exciting news. Our latest generation of supercomputer has also been developed, called 'Dawn', and it is now running After acceptance by the Ministry, the peak computing speed will be as high as 640 million operations per second.”
"This..." The godfather was a little frightened: "Didn't I just pass the national appraisal of the Galaxy All-Digital Simulation Type II Computer? Why is there another dawn?"
"If it involves national secrets, then Stop talking nonsense!”
(End of this chapter)