Chapter 179 Unified GBK (3k)
". Our scientific research leader, Comrade Gao Zhendong, works tirelessly and forgets to eat and sleep. While he has undertaken a number of major scientific research tasks, he also does not forget to use his spare time Time, lead the comrades of the Computing Institute to study hard and work hard, and on the occasion of the New Year, present this New Year’s gift from the scientific research front to the people across the country.”
“We are here to pay tribute to Gao Zhendong. The scientific researchers headed by Comrade Comrade expressed congratulations and thanked them for their hard work.”
The venue burst into applause. People who are familiar with Gao Zhendong know that this is his basic operation, but people who are not so familiar with it are. There is an implicit surprise at this.
“I can’t do this one well, how can he do a lot of them?”
"You don't know Director Gao's style. He always does multiple tasks at the same time without delaying any task."
"He spent all his spare time on it, didn't you hear?"
< br>“Hero, hero!”
“Hey, you are right, this man is really a hero, he has made meritorious service on the battlefield.”
“Really? No comparison, really. No. ”
Subsequently, the leader of the 12th Machinery Department personally operated the keyboard and opened an edited text file.
The reporter pointed the camera and video camera at the monitor, and a line of Chinese characters scrolled out on the screen.
“Happy New Year to the people of the whole country!”
This kind of greeting to the people of the whole country, the Institute of Computing Machinery does not have to play professional tricks like "hello world", it is very appropriate and very It’s down-to-earth and includes a New Year’s greeting.
This New Year's greeting is also the first time that Chinese characters have officially appeared on the stage of information technology under the witness of the public.
People cheered and cheered. Although the people in the computing institute were already excited, it was the first time for others to see it. Moreover, just because the computing institute was excited in private does not mean that they cannot be happy again after officially taking the stage.
I am happy, but you care about me?
The characters used in this line of congratulations are simplified characters.
The earliest concept of simplified characters originated in 1935, with only more than 300 characters. Then after the founding of the People's Republic of China, in 1956, the "Simplified Chinese Characters Plan" was officially announced, with more than 2,200 characters. The official " The General List of Simplified Chinese Characters was promulgated and revised twice, eight years after the plan was announced and again in 1986.
Contrary to some claims, the first batch of simplified characters mainly came from the simplified writing methods of Chinese characters used in ancient documents. Among the more than 500 most commonly used simplified Chinese characters, those that appeared after the founding of the People's Republic of China There are only about 100 of them.
For example, in Wang Xizhi's copybooks, simplified characters are quite common.
Therefore, there has never been any complicated writing method that is "traditional Chinese characters". It is just to reduce the learning cost of the masses. Among the existing writing methods, a simpler and more convenient solution was chosen.
However, the second batch of simplified characters announced in 1977 was indeed oversimplified. Therefore, except for a few characters, the entire second batch of simplified characters was abolished in 1986.
Gao Zhendong and Youfu chose the simplified character scheme for the first version of the font. In addition to responding to the 56-year simplified Chinese character scheme, there is another reason: small workload.
The benefits of simplified characters in learning and promotion can be seen from this.
Good things will naturally be selected and spread, such as a simple word.
When people are obsessed, they will naturally vote with their feet, such as Er Jianzi.
“A melancholy turtle” and “a melancholy turtle”, I think I would rather choose the former.
At the end of the celebration party, or the gift ceremony, the reporter originally wanted to interview Gao Zhendong, but was stopped. It is okay to slightly publicize his deeds, but in-depth interviews are still not allowed.
The two reporters watched Gao Zhendong leave the venue with regretful expressions. In the eyes of a female reporter, it seemed that she was not just regretful about her work.
Gao Zhendong didn't know about these episodes. He had something to discuss with the leaders of the 12th Machinery Department.
Outside the venue, Gao Zhendong and the leaders of the 12th Machinery Department expressed their thoughts: The next step is to add traditional Chinese writing to the font library, and form a standard for the font library and Chinese character encoding table to be circulated.
The leader of the Twelve Machinery Department pondered a little. This thing does not involve any secrets, but Traditional Chinese is a bit sensitive.
Gao Zhendong smiled and said a few words: "Leader, united front, you are not shabby."
The little butterfly Gao Zhendong wants to flap its wings this time is very simple. , there will no longer be two Chinese character libraries, GBK (simplified) and BIG5 (traditional), there will only be a unified GBK.
If we set standards first, do a good job, and then distribute them through certain channels, people will naturally use the good stuff.
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the leaders of the 12th Machinery Department lit up.
Soft power and influence are subtle and ubiquitous.
But getting others to use it willingly is the most difficult thing. It just so happens that Gao Zhendong's proposal is a more suitable one. There is no sensitive content, no propaganda or preaching, no conflict between ideologies and camps. They are just something that has been passed down quietly for thousands of years and cannot be parted from anywhere at any time: words.
As long as you use this thing, it will be affected subconsciously.
Even if you don’t use it, it doesn’t matter. It just becomes a typical example of stubbornness and reinventing the wheel in propaganda.
Even traditional Chinese characters are not sensitive. After all, at this time, the simplified character plan has just been promulgated a few years ago, and there are still a large number of application examples of traditional Chinese characters. We are here to facilitate cultural workers and scientific and technological workers. and the general public.
The leader of the 12th Machinery Department thought carefully, laughed, and patted Gao Zhendong on the shoulder: "Zhendong, you are worthy of being a man who has carried a gun and fought in wars. This string in his head, Never let go! Okay, this is a good suggestion! If necessary, we can only use half of the warehouse, hahaha." After saying that, he turned around and called Director Li: "Director Li. , come on, you are here to work again.”
Director Li was overjoyed when he heard the request from the leader of the 12th Machinery Department and Gao Zhendong. They had originally had the idea of including Traditional Chinese into the Chinese character library and coding table. After all, this thing is really everywhere in the short term, but this matter is not It's so good to bring it up, now I'm dozing off on the pillow.
After discussing this matter, Gao Zhendong turned to find Chief Engineer Chi. He came and settled several things together.
Finding Mr. Chi, he took out the circuit board diagram of the Modem and handed it to Mr. Chi: "Mr. Chi, I have something here. Please ask the office to make the circuit board for me."
Chief Engineer Chi knew there was something new, but he didn’t ask what it was.
He knew it well, and when it was time for him to know, Gao Zhendong would naturally tell him. There were some things that it was not necessarily convenient for Gao Zhendong to tell him. Gao Zhendong had a lot of sensitive things on his hands.
The circuit board was not complicated and the area was not too large. Chief Engineer Chi and Gao Zhendong set a time.
In the afternoon, Gao Zhendong returned to the third rolling mill and continued his work. The operating system was writing the file system, and there was still some work on the control system of the single crystal furnace.
It’s not boring to do several tasks in turn.
In the afternoon, Gao Zhendong's phone rang, and he picked up the phone.
The voice on the phone was Secretary Zheng from the 17th Machinery Department: "Director Gao, I have a situation that I need to trouble you with. There is a comrade from the relevant factory who wants to consult you on a material issue. It will take about half an hour. After that, he will call 伱 ”
Gao Zhendong agreed.
As a member of the 17th Machinery Department, although his spread is not wide, everyone in the circle knows that he is one of the top experts in materials, so Gao Zhendong occasionally receives inquiries from relevant units. ask.
This kind of call usually requires the 17th Machinery Department to say hello in person first.
First of all, Gao Zhendong definitely can't answer everyone's questions, otherwise it will be a mess. Secondly, if you don't call to make an appointment first, according to the communication situation of this era, I'm afraid it will be urgent. It's hard to find people in between.
Half an hour later, the phone rang, and Gao Zhendong answered the phone again.
"Hello, Director Gao, the comrades from the 17th Machinery Department should have communicated the situation to you just now, right?"
"Comrade, hello, hello, yes, yes." The other party did not announce his name. Fortunately, in this era, "comrade" can be used to refer to everything without any embarrassment.
Perhaps considering that the line could be unplugged at any time, the comrade on the other side of the phone did not delay much and asked the question straight to the point: "That's it, Director Gao, we found a problem when we were doing experiments. We need 16mm A thick steel cable, but unfortunately there is no one of this specification, so I used two 8mm ones combined together instead.”
Huh? Gao Zhendong suddenly didn't know what to say. Are you just waiting to be pulled off? The 12-inch pancake made by a certain profiteer is gone, and two 6-inch pancakes have been replaced.
Sure enough, the other party's next sentence confirmed his suspicion: "But during the test, before the test subject had any problems, the composite cable broke, which had a great impact on our test. Director Gao You are an expert in this field, please give us an analysis of what is the cause of this situation.”
Gao Zhendong couldn't hold back his laughter. It was too disrespectful for comrades.
"Comrade, that's it. I suggest you still use 16mm steel cables. If you really can't find 16mm steel cables, it is recommended to use at least five 8mm steel cables instead."
"Ah? Five? You want so many? What's the problem?"
After thinking for a while, Gao Zhendong had to change to a less exciting way of saying: "He is such a comrade, Originally, the replacement of steel cables cannot be achieved by simply using a combination of small steel cables with the same total area. As for the same total diameter, it is even more inappropriate. That’s why I suggest that you’d better look for 16mm steel cables.”
After hearing this, the other party was silent for a long time, and then said: "I am just a Goose Nuan!"
The first few words are in Mandarin, and the last two words should mean that he is anxious and the dialect is bursting out.
Perhaps because he was afraid that Gao Zhendong would misunderstand, the other party hurriedly explained: "I'm not scolding you, Director Gao, I'm scolding myself for being stupid."
Gao Zhendong chuckled and saw that the other party understood. I said a few words to the other party to say goodbye, and hung up the phone.
As soon as he hung up the phone, Gao Zhendong couldn't help laughing. This episode was so interesting.
(End of this chapter)