Chapter 1106 Free Software
"So it can be used?" Leng Yulong asked.
"I don't think there is any problem." Zhou Zhi felt that this character card could not be more perfect. Although it was different from the standard bold character card made by Feng Xueshan, the font conversion logic was early in the first phase of the project. Just finished things.
It’s just that at that time, the fonts such as regular script, imitation Song Dynasty, official script and so on were “calculated” based on the blackface characters through vector algorithm. Now we only need to change it to use the regular script characters as the benchmark, or make a font from regular script to boldface. Reverse engineering will do the trick.
“Wait a minute.” Wei Yixin said: “We also have another type of calligraphy cards, and they are not all in regular script.”
As he spoke, he walked to a bookcase and took out a calligraphy card from it: "Look, there are also official scripts."
China's Chinese characters have a long history. The earliest were oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, and then gradually changed. By the Qin Dynasty, In the Han Dynasty, it became Xiaozhuan, and in the Han Dynasty, it became official script on bamboo slips and silk scripts.
There are several types of official script. The kind engraved on stone tablets is called "Zhang Li", which is the "national standard script".
According to different eras, Zhang Li is divided into calligraphy styles such as Qin, Han, Wei and Jin. Each period will have some new ways of tying characters.
There is also another type created by government officials in order to write quickly. The strokes have cursive and other styles, and also contain a large number of simple brushes, which are called "Xing Li" or "Cao Li".
Cao Li played a decisive role in the "regularization" of Chinese characters. Therefore, the two methods of tying characters in official script are recognized by the academic community, and the more recognized one among them is called "dingzi".
However, with the changes in writing habits of official script, many writing methods are gradually no longer used in the process of regular script. When regular script is fully mature, the "ancient" structure of many characters will no longer be used. The calligraphy, and even the writing itself, can only be found on the inscriptions and bamboo slips of the previous generation.
Zhou Zhi could tell at a glance that the two senior brothers did not convert this type of characters into the standard regular script characters of "Chinese Character Sea", but kept these characters in their final form. Come down.
This extremely rigorous attitude towards work makes Zhou Zhi inexplicably impressed. There is no doubt that this method also reflects the historical information contained in some texts.
"Can the official script be recognized?" Hanwenku must convert all the text into various fonts. The purpose of digitization itself is this. Leng Yulong is just worried that this will bring trouble to Zhou Zhi.
"No problem. At this time, the power of our radical recognition technology can be used. Reverse engineering is not difficult." Zhou Zhi didn't think that this matter could be difficult for any engineering technician: "But the two senior brothers are rigorous Zhou Zhi couldn't help but admire his style."
"It's okay." Leng Yulong said. Then he breathed a sigh of relief: "Then what do we need to do now?"
"The big work has been done for you. Now we only need to scan the word cards and put them in the warehouse." Zhou Zhi smiled as if he had picked up a cornucopia. : "The rest can be left to the program."
"Is it that simple?" Wei Yixin could hardly believe it.
"Brothers, can I borrow these two character cards so that we can go to the capital project team to conduct a feasibility verification?"
"The management procedures for borrowing and returning cards are too troublesome." Leng Yulong said: "Why don't we give you two copies in cash."
"That would be even better, we can also observe and learn." Zhou Zhi is even more happy.
Leng Yulong and Wei Yixin sat down at the desk and opened the drawer, which was filled with blank word cards.
From a calligraphy point of view, the regular script and official script of both men are extremely rigid. There is no change in the horizontal and vertical structures, and they are almost pure repetitions.
In other words, the words of the two senior brothers are just like Feng Xueshan's bold calligraphy cards, almost reaching the same mechanical standard.
A brush for large characters and a pen for small characters. When they finished writing on the card, the two handed the card to Zhou Zhi.
Zhou Zhi turned the card over and said, "Two senior brothers, please sign your names." "Huh? What kind of rule is this? Has anyone been traced?" Leng Yulong asked, "There is someone in front of you. Card maker."
"That one is too standard." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Please choose the signatures on the back according to your own personality."
"Why?" Wei Yixin was also curious.
"Because these two cards will become my collection." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "The kind that will be left for future generations."
"Hahahaha..." Leng Yulong couldn't help laughing and wrote his signature casually. : "Junior brother, you are so interesting!"
"Okay I heard students say that they like autographed photos of film and television stars. "Wei Yixin also happily signed his name: "Thanks to my junior brother, I also opened a plate of foreign meat today."
Han. The text library project also has a working group in the capital, but the location is in Huaqing Garden.
The work of the Capital Han Character Library working group is not to carry out basic projects such as code acquisition and character conversion. Their work focuses on "environment migration", which is to transplant the Han Character Library to various application systems and hardware. .
This is also a very important part of technological transformation, and the most important one is the environmental application function of Sugon Supercomputing.
The reason why we focus on Dawn supercomputing is because of a great idea that can be called the "Light of God" - the GNU Project.
The so-called GNU Project is a free software collective collaboration project publicly launched by Richard Stallman of MIT in 1983. Its goal is to create a completely free operating system, namely GNU.
In 1985, Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation to provide technical, legal and financial support for the GNU project.
When the GNU project began to gain success, some commercial companies began to get involved in development and technical support.
By the 1990s, the GNU project had developed software, including a powerful text editor Emacs, a C language compiler GCC, a bashshell deployment scheduler, a gdb debugger, and most UNIX system libraries and tools.
The only important component that remains unfinished is the kernel known as the HURD operating system.
The situation changed in 1991. A programmer named Linus Torvalds wrote a UNIX-compatible Linux operating system kernel and released it under the terms of the GPL.
Soon, Linux spread widely, and countless programmers around the world began to "generate power for love" and participated in development and modification.
Last year, Linux was combined with other GNU software, and this completely free operating system was officially born. The operating system is often referred to as 'GNU/Linux'.
Or Linux for short.
Although GNU has plans to develop its own kernel, because the combination of the Linux kernel and GNU software is so easy to use, it quickly became an "emerging force" and exerted a huge influence on software development around the world.
Many programmers began to gather spontaneously and began to develop a free, high-quality, easy-to-understand free software.
Yes, the core of GNU’s genius idea and the light of God lies in its GPL terms.
GPL, and General Public License, is a protocol certificate for computer software issued by the Free Software Foundation. Software that uses this certificate has a wonderful name - "free software".
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