Author: Erzi Congzhou

"According to Ren Fang's "Shu Yi Ji", the land dwelling is called Xiong, and the water dwelling is called Neng. It can also remind us of another legend."

"It is said that Dayu controlled floods and married Tushan. He erected a drum at the construction site so that when Tushan heard the sound of the drum, he would come with food."

"After that, Dayu transformed into a big bear and dug into the mountains. But one day he was too engrossed in his work and a flying stone hit the drum, but Dayu didn't notice it."

"When Tushan heard the sound of drums and brought food, he found that his husband was actually a big bear. He was so frightened that he turned into a stone statue."

"Dayu was extremely grieved and told the stone statue that you could turn into a stone statue and leave his son to me."

"After saying that, the belly of the stone statue suddenly opened, and a child fell out of the stone statue. This is the origin of the name 'Qi'."

This series of stories and knowledge made the big guys in the computer department across the street listen with interest. Zhou Zhi then said: "Does this legend also mean that Dayu also inherited Gun's ability and can transform into a bear or a bear?"

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"Did Dayu finally decide to break the abdication system and pass the world to his son because he felt his father's miserable fate?"

"Can it be considered as circumstantial evidence that the legend of Dayu's flood control took place in the era of tribal alliances when pottery, stone and bone tools were used together?"

"So you see, if these two rare words Xiong (Ni) and (bone system) really disappear, will it lead to the loss of some information about the Chinese civilization mentioned above? Will there be some unsolvable mysteries in the future?

?Will it cause confusion to our descendants?"

"In the past, due to limited conditions, the Chinese people were not well educated. Rapid popularization of writing and elimination of illiteracy were top priorities, so the implementation of simplified characters was inevitable. GB2312 also played a huge role."

"But if the conditions now allow it, if we have the opportunity to collect and record all the words, we are still indifferent and let these words disappear in the long river of history without leaving them to future generations.

, will it be a regret in the future?”

"If our descendants, because of us, no longer know the two words Xiong (Ni) and (bone system) and the historical and cultural information carried by these two words, then should we be...

The sinner of the nation?!”

"Before the advent of information technology, some Westerners once believed that Chinese characters would disappear due to the birth of computer technology."

"After our efforts, we have the GB2312 Chinese character encoding, which proves to those people that they were pure nonsense before."

"And I believe that it is precisely because of the development of information technology that the problem of difficulty in writing and memorizing Chinese characters has been solved. The promotion and application of Chinese characters may even produce innovative changes."

"GB2312 proves that we can do it, GB 13000 proves that we can do better, so why don't we strike while the iron is hot and simply make it the best at once?"

"What does it mean to be the best?" Li Hongjiang no longer dared to look down upon the child in front of him. He really didn't know these things contained in Chinese characters, or he didn't pay attention to them at all.

This is also a common imagination in Chinese academic circles today. In the crazy pursuit stage, how can one dare to pursue perfection? The current stage is enough, and solving current problems is already the highest goal of most science and engineering scholars.

"To achieve the ultimate means that the new font encoding must be fully compatible with history, fully collected in the current situation, and expandable in the future." Zhou Zhi is not afraid at all: "Fully compatible with history means that the new font can be fully compatible.

GB2312 and GB13000 encoding. Text information that has been entered using these two encodings can also be read completely using the new encoding."

"The current full collection refers to the Chinese character symbols that we currently know, including the simplified characters of the mainland, the traditional characters of Baodao, Hong Kong, Macao, and New Island, as well as some Chinese character symbols used by island countries, North Korea, and South Korea, all of which have been adopted into the new coding system

Come."

"The meaning of future expansion is to leave enough redundant coding space for the font library to prepare for the collection of more characters and symbols in the future." Zhou Zhi talked eloquently: "Master Danzin just said that our country has many

In a country of nations, many ethnic groups have their own writing, and these writings are also treasures of our Chinese family."

"Therefore, we need to leave enough space for the expansion of this character library to include the characters of these ethnic minorities when the time is ripe in the future."

"This is my idea, about the Chinese standard large font library."

"Uh...Classmate Zhou Zhi." Li Hongjiang is also a bachelor: "I want to apologize to you, as well as to Master Gu and Master Danzeng. I really didn't realize the importance of this issue before."

"But I have said before that GB 13000 is designed based on ISO/IEC 1064. The universal multi-octet encoding character set has only more than 20,000 code points. It is like a farm with only so many chicken cages. In fact,

Isn’t it possible to hold so many chickens as you mentioned?”

"So there is a problem with this multi-eight-bit coded character set and it is not suitable for China's needs. Then why do we still make do with it?" Zhou Zhi asked rhetorically.

"If you don't use this one, then which one should you use?" Li Hongjiang didn't think Zhou Zhi was making trouble unreasonably. Being able to ask questions is not a skill. The key is that after the problem is raised, you must be able to solve it.

"Why not use UNICODE?"

"UNICODE?" Li Hongjiang thought for a moment: "UNICODE hasn't been written yet, right? The international standards haven't come out yet, so where can we refer to it?"

The Chinese translation of Unicode is called Unicode, also known as Universal Code. Unicode is an industry standard in the field of computer science developed by the Unicode Alliance, which mainly includes character sets and encoding schemes.

Unicode was created to solve the limitations of traditional character encoding schemes. It sets a unified and unique binary encoding for each character in each language to meet the needs of cross-language and cross-platform text conversion and processing.

Require.

The original purpose of Unicode design was to create a character encoding scheme that could accommodate all texts and symbols in the world.

The design idea is to use numbers 0-0x10FFFF to map all characters, which can accommodate up to 1114112 characters, or 1114112 code points.

The UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 that everyone is familiar with in later generations are actually encoding schemes that convert numbers into program data.

Of course, these code points are not used casually, but have specified intervals. For example, the interval used for Chinese characters in the previous life was 3400-4DBF, 4E00-9FFF, and 20000-3FFFF, which is called: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam Unified Ideographs

interval.

There are more than one million code points, which is more than enough to hold all Chinese characters.

Because there is no upper limit, UTF can theoretically continue to expand.

Of course, judging from the experience of the previous life, there is absolutely no need for this, it is enough.
Chapter completed!