Author: Erzi Congzhou

"It's not a secret, but we haven't taken the last step yet and haven't started publicizing it yet."

"This speed is amazing. It should be compared to a six-meter Galaxy, right?" The fourth cousin's knowledge of computers was limited to what he read in newspapers. He was curious: "Then how do you know?"

"Because the person in charge of the project is Professor Li Guojie, the operating system used by Sugon is the domestic system SNIX developed on the basis of UNIX. It just so happens that our Sichuan University laboratory also uses UNIX, which is also the research and development platform for the Unicode large font library."

"The Chinese character system equipped on the Galaxy is the Wubi input method, the D2000 Chinese character only terminal and the ZD-1110 character display terminal. After evolving to Dawn, a more advanced Chinese character processing system is naturally needed. Based on Unicode on the same operating system, it is natural

It has become Professor Li’s first choice.”

"That's right!" Xu Youzhi slapped his thigh: "What Director Wu just said is to solve the existing problems first, and then solve the problems that are not good. Even if this Unicode large font library cannot be developed on a small computer, it can be done on a giant computer now.

Get up! This is another way to solve it first, then solve it, okay?"

Although this statement is not very consistent with the actual situation, it is still an easy-to-understand explanation. Zhou Zhi had to skip this section: "Because of this, Shu University is stepping up its font research and development work, and we only have one month left.

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"And Professor Li is very stingy and does not allocate supercomputing resources to us at all." Speaking of this thoughtfulness, Professor Li also said: "Fortunately, our Shu University now has a new laboratory with several more minicomputers.

I can barely complete the task.”

"But what I'm talking about is not the engineering trap that will have a huge impact on the future," Zhou Zhi said, "but the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge."

"Ah?" Zhao Shangzhong couldn't understand at all: "How can it be related to the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge?"

"Although the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is a huge engineering achievement after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the original design height was actually 26 meters."

"However, the country was in a difficult period at that time. The experts who reviewed the plan raised a question, which was whether it was possible to lower the height to 24 meters and save some costs while ensuring the passage of 10,000-ton ships."

"This plan was opposed by the shipping department at the time. They believed that although the 24-meter clearance could ensure the passage of 10,000 tons most of the time, it could not be guaranteed during special periods such as high tides. During high water periods, it could only pass 3,000 tons.

Class ships will seriously affect shipping efficiency."

"Due to cost considerations, the bridge was ultimately designed to be 24 meters long. The idea was just like what my godfather said just now, solve existing problems first. It was also in line with what my fourth cousin just said. 26 meters is a bit too ambitious. At that time, the New China had 10,000 tons

There aren’t many wheels at all.”

"But after the bridge was built, the development of shipping on the Yangtze River was basically restricted. Subsequent Yangtze River bridges were all designed according to the clear height of the Nanjing Bridge, which completely eliminated the possibility that a 10,000-ton ship could theoretically reach Yichang."

"The design of our Chinese character library is actually very similar to this problem," Zhou Zhi said: "The old protocol has been patched and patched, and there is also an upper limit for Chinese character encoding. The ceiling is only 27,000 code points."

"It's barely enough now, and there's even a lot of redundancy, but we obviously have a small number of Chinese characters. When computer technology can be used in many aspects in the future, we will inevitably face the problem of being unable to input many Chinese characters."

"The simplest example is the electronic project of ancient books. I am afraid that more than half of the rare characters will only be turned into square boxes."

"When the protocol needs to be changed at that time, all Chinese character processing systems developed based on this protocol will need to be demolished and redeveloped. There will also be an additional problem of transcoding and compatibility of the two protocol codes, and additional Chinese character processing systems will need to be developed.

The processing program needs to develop a set of compatibility patches. Otherwise, the data previously stored in the system cannot be interpreted using the new protocol, and the previous informatization work will be in vain."

"This means that all the bridges on the Yangtze River need to be demolished and rebuilt to solve the problem of 10,000-ton ships arriving in Yichang." Zhou Zhi said meaningfully: "Twenty-five years after the completion of the Nanjing Bridge, this is still possible.

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"I'm going to tell you why the country pays so much attention to it!" Zhao Shangzhong was so drunk that he woke up with a fright: "I couldn't figure out why even the ministries and commissions were alerted as soon as you brought this up, and dragged you to the capital to report overnight... This is why

It’s a big pit to avoid in the future!”

In fact, shipping is a complex subject, focusing on bulk cargo transportation. As far as the Yangtze River waterway is concerned, it is most suitable for transporting grain, coal, steel, oil, cement, sand and gravel, etc.; or large machinery, automobiles and other industrial products.

Many of these industries have overcapacity, have no rigid demand for transportation, or have other transportation methods that do not necessarily rely on shipping.

In addition, there are safety issues caused by large ships entering rivers and waterways, and traffic bottlenecks caused by water conservancy projects. These problems cannot be solved by solving the height limit.

However, it is still appropriate to use it as an example to let everyone here understand the importance of a large font library.

Almost everyone here didn't understand how important this matter was until now and praised Zhou Zhi.

They don't praise Zhou Zhi for his understanding of information technology. No matter how strong he is, he can't compete with real experts in this area.

The main reason is to praise him for his high perspective on the problem, which is a real contribution to the present and future generations.

The fourth cousin was a little puzzled: "Our country's information technology is still very weak after all. Why haven't so many experts thought of this problem? Why do we still need elbows to remind us?"

"It is a fact that technology is weak." Zhou Zhi admitted: "Projects like ours cannot allocate even a little of the country's supercomputing resources, which shows how scarce and tight resources are."

"But this problem can be solved by a small computer. The main problem is awareness." Zhou Zhi said a little indignantly: "Those who understand words do not understand computers, and those who understand computers do not understand words."

At this point, I couldn't help but cursed in front of my elders: "Who told the information technology majors today to be all science majors?! They can't even recognize the 5,000 commonly used words in the existing lexicon. How can they be expected to think of it?"

These?!"

"You are so arrogant, aren't you?!" Mom took over and hit Zhou Zhi on the back of the head: "If you dare to say dirty words in front of your elders, you are a monk or a science student!"

Yang He quickly raised his hand: "I prove that Zhuizi is right, but I can't read all the five thousand words..."

Zhou Zhi was punished, and then he quickly explained angrily: "It's not arrogance, sadness and anger, pure sadness and anger..."

"Yes, it seems that Yang He is also majoring in computer engineering?" Zhao Shangzhong cast an earnest look at Yang He: "A liberal arts student can make a contribution in this area, you have to work harder..."

Yang He: "..."
Chapter completed!