Chapter 179 Unified GBK (3k)

".Our scientific research leader, Comrade Gao Zhendong, has worked tirelessly and has undertaken many major scientific research tasks. At the same time, he has not forgotten to use his spare time to lead his colleagues in the Institute of Computing to study hard and work hard. At the beginning of the New Year, he presents this New Year's gift from the scientific research front to the people across the country."

"We would like to express our congratulations to the scientific researchers headed by Gao Zhendong and thank them for their hard work."

There was thunderous applause in the venue. People who were familiar with Gao Zhendong knew that this was his basic operation, but people who were not so familiar with him were secretly surprised by this.

"I can't even do this one well, how can he do a lot?"

"You don't know Director Gao's style. He always carries out multiple tasks at the same time without delaying any of them."

"They put all their spare time into it, didn't you hear it?"

"Hero, hero!"

"Hey, you're right, this guy is really a hero, he made great contributions on the battlefield."

"Really? There's no comparison. I really can't compare."

Afterwards, the leader of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building personally operated the keyboard and opened an edited text file.

The reporter pointed both the camera and the video camera at the monitor, and a line of Chinese characters scrolled across the screen.

"I wish all people in the country a happy New Year!"

For this kind of greeting to the people of the whole country, the Institute of Computing did not use any professional tricks like "hello world". It was very appropriate and down-to-earth, and included a line of New Year greetings.

This line of New Year's greetings also marks the first time that Chinese characters have officially entered the stage of information technology in public.

People cheered and rejoiced. Although the people in the Computing Institute had been excited before, it was the first time for others to see it. Moreover, just because the Computing Institute had been excited privately did not mean that they could not be happy again after officially stepping onto the stage.

I'm happy, what do you care?
The characters used in this line of blessing 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 "Scheme for the Simplified Chinese Characters" was officially announced, with more than 2200 characters. The official "General List of Simplified Chinese Characters" was promulgated and revised twice, eight years after the announcement of the plan and in 1986.

Contrary to some statements, the first batch of simplified characters mainly came from the simplified Chinese characters used in ancient documents. Among the more than 500 most commonly used simplified Chinese characters, only about 100 appeared after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

For example, in Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, simplified characters are quite common.

Therefore, there has never been any complicated way of writing that is "traditional Chinese characters". It is simply to reduce the learning cost of the masses and to choose a simpler and more convenient option among the existing writing methods.

However, the second batch of simplified characters announced in 1977 were indeed over-simplified, so except for a few characters, the second batch of simplified characters were abolished as a whole in 1986.

Gao Zhendong and Su Yun chose to use the simplified Chinese character scheme to make the first version of the character library. In addition to responding to the simplified Chinese character scheme of 56, there was another reason: the workload was small.

The benefits of simplified characters in learning and promoting them are evident from this.

Good things will naturally be selected and spread, such as a simplified Chinese character.

Once people become obsessed with it, they will naturally vote with their feet, such as the second simplified characters.

Between "a melancholy turtle" and "a depressed turtle", I think most people would choose the former.

After the celebration party, or the tribute party, ended, the reporter who wanted to interview Gao Zhendong was stopped. It was okay to publicize his deeds a little, but an in-depth interview was still not allowed.

Two reporters watched Gao Zhendong leave the venue with regret, and in the eyes of one female reporter, it seemed that there was more than just regret about her job.

Gao Zhendong was unaware of these episodes as he had things to discuss with the leaders of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building.

Outside the venue, Gao Zhendong and the leaders of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building expressed their ideas: The next step is to add traditional Chinese characters to the character library, and to standardize the character library and Chinese character encoding table and circulate them.

The leader of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building was a little hesitant. This thing did not involve any secrets, but traditional Chinese characters were a bit sensitive.

Gao Zhendong smiled and said a few words: "Leader, it's united front work, it's not shabby."

What Gao Zhendong, the little butterfly, wants to flap this time is very simple. This time, there will no longer be two Chinese character fonts, GBK (simplified) and BIG5 (traditional), but only the unified GBK.

Set standards first, do a good job, and then spread them through certain channels. Naturally, someone will use the good stuff.

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the leaders of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building lit up.

Things like soft power and influence are subtle and ubiquitous.

But getting others to use it willingly is the most difficult thing. Coincidentally, Gao Zhendong's proposal is a more appropriate one. There is no sensitive content, no propaganda or preaching, no conflict of ideology or camp. They are just something that has been passed down quietly for thousands of years and cannot be separated from at any time and place: words.

As long as you use this thing, you will be affected subconsciously.

Even if it is not used, it doesn’t matter. It just becomes a typical example of propaganda stubbornness and reinventing the wheel.

Even traditional Chinese characters are not sensitive. After all, at this time, the simplified Chinese character scheme had only been promulgated for a few years, and traditional Chinese characters still have a large number of application examples. We do this to facilitate cultural workers, scientific and technological workers, and the general public.

The leader of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building thought about it 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 a war. This string in your head has never been loosened! Okay, this is a good suggestion! If it is really necessary, we can only use half of the warehouse internally, hahahaha."

After saying that, he turned around and called Director Li: "Director Li, come on, it's time for you to do something again."

Director Li was overjoyed when he heard the request from the leaders of the 12th Ministry of Machine Building and Gao Zhendong. They originally had the idea of ​​incorporating traditional Chinese characters into the Chinese character library and encoding table. After all, this thing would be everywhere in the short term. However, it was not easy to bring it up, and now their sleepy head had been slapped with a pillow.

After discussing the matter, Gao Zhendong turned around and looked for Chief Engineer Chi. Since they were already here, they might as well take care of several things at once.

He found Chief Engineer Chi and took out the circuit board diagram of the modem and handed it to Chief Engineer Chi: "Chief Engineer Chi, I have something here. I'd like to trouble the institute to make the circuit board for me."

Chief Engineer Chi knew that there was something new, but he didn't ask what it was.

He knew it in his heart. When the time came for him to know, Gao Zhendong would naturally tell him. However, there were some things that Gao Zhendong might not be able to tell him, as Gao Zhendong had a lot of sensitive things in his hands.

The circuit board was not complicated and the area was not too large, so Chief Engineer Chi and Gao Zhendong set a time.

In the afternoon, Gao Zhendong returned to the Third Steel Rolling Mill and continued his work. The operating system was writing the file system, and there was also some work to be done on the control system of the single crystal furnace.

It's not boring to change between several jobs.

In the afternoon, Gao Zhendong's phone rang and he picked up the call.

The voice on the line was from Secretary Zheng of the Seventeenth Ministry of Machinery: "Director Gao, I need to trouble you with something. A comrade from a related factory would like to consult you about a material issue. He will call you in about half an hour."

Gao Zhendong agreed.

Although Gao Zhendong is not widely known within the 17th Ministry of Machine Building, everyone in the circle knows that he is one of the top experts in materials. Therefore, Gao Zhendong occasionally receives consultation requests from relevant units.

However, for this kind of phone call, the 17th Ministry of Machine Building usually has to personally greet you first.

Firstly, Gao Zhendong certainly couldn't answer everyone's questions, otherwise it would be a mess. Secondly, if he didn't call to make an appointment first, given the communication conditions of this era, it would probably be difficult to find someone in a hurry.

Half an hour later, the phone rang and Gao Zhendong answered it again.

"Hello, Director Gao. I think the comrades from the Seventeenth Machinery Department have already informed you of the situation, right?"

"Comrade, hello, hello, yes, yes." The other party did not introduce himself. Fortunately, in this era, "comrade" can be used to address everything, and there is no embarrassment at all.

Perhaps considering that the line might be disconnected at any time, the comrade on the other end of the phone did not delay and asked the question directly: "This is it, Director Gao, we found a problem when we were doing the test. We need a 16mm thick steel cable, but unfortunately we don't have this specification, so we used two 8mm cables combined together instead."

Hmm? Gao Zhendong suddenly didn't know what to say. Are you waiting to be pulled apart? The 12-inch pancakes made by a certain unscrupulous businessman were gone, so they replaced them with two 6-inch ones.

Sure enough, the other party's next sentence confirmed his guess: "However, during the test, the composite cable broke before any problems occurred with the test object, which had a great impact on our test. Director Gao, you are an expert in this field. Please analyze for us the cause of this situation."

Gao Zhendong held back his laughter. He couldn't laugh. It was so disrespectful to his comrades.

"Comrade, this is the case. I suggest you use 16mm steel cables. If you really can't find 16mm steel cables, I suggest you use at least 5 8mm steel cables instead."

"Ah? Five? So many? What's the problem here?"

After thinking for a while, Gao Zhendong had to change his statement to a less provocative one: "It is like this, comrade. The replacement of steel cables cannot be simply replaced by a combination of small steel cables with the same total area. As for the total diameter being equal, it is even more inappropriate. That is why I suggest that you should find a 16mm steel cable."

After hearing this, the other party was silent for a long time, and then blurted out: "I am just an otaku!"

The first few words are in Mandarin, but the last two words must have been spoken in a hurry, and the dialect broke out.

Perhaps fearing that Gao Zhendong might misunderstand him, the other party hurriedly explained: "I'm not scolding you, Director Gao. I'm scolding myself for being stupid."

Gao Zhendong chuckled, and seeing that the other party understood what he meant, he said a few words goodbye to the other party and hung up the phone.

As soon as he hung up the phone, Gao Zhendong couldn't help laughing. This little episode was so interesting.

(End of this chapter)