Chapter 0239 Implement a unified standard for Chinese character coding
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Relative to the audience full of celebrities, this party invited a large number of stars, including Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanjie, Luo Wen, Xu Xiaofeng, Zhen Ni, Guan Zhengjie, Lin Zixiang, Chen Baiqiang, Zheng Shaoqiu, Wang Mingquan and other popular artists, even Alan Tam, who has just emerged, and Leslie Cheung, who has not yet risen, have been pulled to make up the numbers, and the host is Shen Dianxia, which can be said to show the company's wealth to the fullest.
In fact, the reason why Tang Huan invited these stars at all costs was not only to entertain them, but also to include them in the next marketing plan by the way.
Tang Huan successively greeted the guests from all walks of life in the audience, especially in front of the three major employee phalanxes of Xiangjiang, Baodao and Singapore, and stopped for the longest time.
After all, in the final analysis, this party is mainly an internal activity that he uses to please his subordinates, boost morale, and enhance the cohesion of the company.
Soon, the party began, and after Shen Dianxia said a cheerful opening remarks, she launched the first program, "Tonight's program is wonderful, first of all, I sincerely invite everyone to enjoy the golden song, this is a genuine golden song, because it is sung by a glittering billionaire, and we are invited to our most handsome and versatile boss Tang Huan." ”
In the warm applause, Tang Huan walked onto the stage calmly.
The facilities of the Lee Stage are very advanced, such as this stage. It can be rotated 360 degrees. For a long time. All of them are unique features of similar venues in Hong Kong.
"I'll tell you a secret, I used my connections to get the first chance to perform on stage, do you know why?" Tang Huan sold a pass.
In this happy atmosphere of family fun, the difference between the status of the upper and lower levels on weekdays naturally fades a lot, so many people laughed and shouted together, "Because I am afraid of not performing well, I will have no face at the end." ”
"How do you know? It's just that my record sales are dismal. It has become an open secret. Tang Huan asked in surprise, "Forget it, the more you talk, the bigger the blow, let's hurry up and complete the task, a song "Farewell My Concubine", dedicated to everyone." ”
Tang Huan's singing skills are the same as Luo Wen's Cantonese opera skills, the words are correct and round, but in the specific form of expression. Similar to Lin Zixiang, it is more impactful and explosive.
Tang Huan on the stage at this time. The eyes and movements are full of momentum, and after listening to it, people can't help but feel blood gushing up, and their scalp is numb, especially Tang Huan's subordinates, who spontaneously have a kind of heroism of soldiers following the general to fight in all directions.
This kind of infection effect may be related to the recent rapid rise of Tang Huan's career and status.
"What a tyrant who dominates the world." Huang Zhan in the audience sighed.
"Since I appreciate people so much, I will be a snack about the company's affairs in the future." Lin Yanni gave him a blank look, probably because she was a little dissatisfied with the operation of the Huang and Lin advertising company that the two of them co-opened.
At this time, Shen Dianxia walked to the front of the stage and said to Tang Huan, who was about to leave the stage after singing: "Mr. Tang, your record sales are okay, especially recently when you have been exposed to a person's light, and it has risen a little." ”
"Is there such a thing? I really don't know, which noble person helped? Tang Huan asked cooperatively.
"Mr. Tang is a busy person, it's normal not to know, she is Miss Zhang Delan from DreamWorks." Shen Dianxia made a joke, "Shouldn't you prepare a red envelope to thank your company's artists?" ”
"It should, it should, I was negligent." Tang Huan made a movement to wipe his sweat, and Zhang Delan, a petite and delicate new generation of jade female singer, had already walked over.
"Male and female duet, "Choice." After Shen Dianxia finished reporting the curtain, Tang Huan took Zhang Delan's hand and began to complete the last stage task.
These two Chinese songs are followed by Cheung Delan's recent solo performance of the recently popular Cantonese song "Lost Promise".
Every singer, if he wants to develop in the long run, he must have his own masterpiece, just like Ye Liyi in the original time and space, a popular "Shanghai_ Beach" episode made it occupy a place in the Xiangjiang music scene, and the current Zhang Delan, after entering DreamWorks, also got this opportunity.
How fierce the competition in the entertainment industry is, tonight's performance lineup was full of stars, but Tang Huan, who was originally playing tickets, mobilized the atmosphere at once, and the stars after that naturally had to show their best state to deal with it, and the excitement of the whole party can be imagined.
For example, Xu Guanjie sang the title song of his third Cantonese album "Half a catty and eight taels", and the movie of the same name broke the record in the first round of release in 1976, achieving a score of HK$8 million, becoming the high-grossing champion movie of the year, and Zhao Yazhi also played the role of a vase in it.
After its release in Japan in February 1979, "Half a Pound and Eight Two" was a huge hit, creating the Mr. Boo! comedy film series, and several subsequent Hui Brothers comedy films were titled Mr. Boo!, and this song was also changed to the Japanese version.
It can be said that the best-selling record "Half a Catty Eight Taels" that year was the first peak of Xu Guanjie's singing career, and the "Prodigal Son's Heart" he sang next was also well-known on the streets.
Tang Huan nodded in the audience, the Xu brothers are really extraordinary, the movie "Modern Bodyguard" they are currently filming will create a precedent for Xiangjiang Chinese New Year films next year, winning more than 17 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, once again refreshing the box office record in Xiangjiang, and becoming the box office champion of the year.
This is better, his advertising effect will rise, and his college degree is more in line with the positioning of high-tech products, it is necessary to sign a long-term contract, Tang Huan is clinking in his heart.
There was a small episode in the party, Zheng Shaoqiu sang "Turn". Wang Mingquan sang "Steal the Heart with Love". The former is the theme song of the TVB TV series "Rotation", which has just been cut in half. The latter is the theme song of DreamWorks' new work "The King of a Thousand Kings", the artists don't think much about it, how the organizer asks for it, just do it yourself, but the senior management will naturally be more serious, Fang Yihua glanced at Hu Yinmeng next to him with an unhappy face after seeing the order of appearance of this show, and the other party enjoyed it with interest.
The final finale was naturally Deng Lijun. A song "On the Beach" and a song "A Thousand Miles Away" drew a complete end to this party.
Looking at Deng Lijun, who is in a better state than in the past, Fang Yihua thought about it, the TV series "Dragon Babu" can borrow the east wind of video games, then you can also ask Deng Lijun to sing the episodes of the TV series that TVB is preparing to shoot in the near future, such as "Incompatible".
When the scandal between Deng Lijun and Tang Huan reached Xiangjiang in the middle of last year, it was just a small conversation, but today, it seems to be of great significance.
Fang Yihua glanced at Hu Yinmeng again. Girl, ginger is still old and spicy. Borrowing strength is a profound knowledge.
When the prosperity finally came to an end, before leaving, Tang Huan looked at the couplet on both sides of the stage - "The southeast is good at the well-dressed place, and the dance is full of the stage and the orchestra plays Juntian", and couldn't help but sigh with feeling.
Xiangjiang, a small land, could not form a large-scale production base after all, and the profit-seeking nature of free capital eventually turned most of the land uses into commercial buildings.
This historic Lee Stage is of great significance to the Lee family, but in the original time and space, it still could not resist the temptation of real estate interests, and was demolished in 1991 and rebuilt into a commercial building focusing on shopping and dining, that is, Lee Stage Plaza.
Therefore, the current situation is that there is no other choice for the computer production base, only the Baodao has complete supporting facilities and low cost, followed by the conditions of Singapore, which is smaller in area, and the mainland is still slowly starting.
Fortunately, his status as an American-born billionaire is enough for him to easily ignore small-grained political risks between these regions that hug the thighs of the United States.
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Compared with yesterday's lively party, today's middle and high-level meeting in Greater China is much more solemn.
Tang Huan, who was sitting in the center, was on the left hand side by Huang Gencheng, Zhou Mi, Zhu Bangfu, Ni Guangnan and others, and on the right was Jian Mingren, Shi Chongtang, Zhou Weikun, Feng Xingjun and others.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the second-generation Fangyuan personal computer has been successfully developed, and its performance is enough to ensure that it can maintain the life cycle of mid-to-high-end products for at least three years in the world." Tang Huan confidently made judgments.
"My requirements for everyone's work can be summed up in two points. The first is market share, turning the Asian market into its own backyard. At present, MC68000, Intel8086, MOS6502 three series of products, has fully covered the high, medium and low grades, and the software platform is also unified, which is IBM, HP, DEC, Wang An computer, NEC and other competitors can not achieve the advantage for the time being, to complete this goal, it should not be a big problem. ”
Tang Huan looked around at everyone, "This is a traditional requirement, but I want to say another point that is more important, that is, our hardware platform is more powerful, and it is time to vigorously promote a unified standard for Chinese character encoding." Privately, this matter is to let the company master the industry standard and be invincible; As far as the public is concerned, just like papermaking and printing, the sooner Chinese characters catch the train of informatization, the sooner the inheritance and development of Chinese culture will usher in a new opportunity. With this unified standard, the industry does not need to waste resources to do anything about 10,000 yards, and can focus on how to develop new functions for Chinese computers. Everyone has no worries about food and clothing, and they must be willing to participate in some elegant things that will leave a name in history. ”
Tang Huan is so good at demagoguery, so that his subordinates are dazzled.
The cornerstone of computer processing data is information coding, taking the processing of characters as an example, as if first setting a table composed of rows and columns, and then filling in each character in a specific order, so that each character gets a serial number encoding, and the computer can only identify the characters through this serial number encoding.
Around this serial number coding, three meaning-related concepts are generated, namely, the inner code, the exchange code, and the outer code.
The internal code is the serial number number that exists in the computer memory. Used by CPUs, programs, and developers.
It's like the big picture of all kinds of personal computers in the U.S. right now. Each vendor can get their own unique hardware architecture. The same goes for internal codes.
It's not hard to imagine that in the eyes of the engineers of the IBM Chess Project, whether you are a letter or a Chinese character, it is all an abstract serial number code.
Especially due to the limited capacity of today's memory, each manufacturer has more reason to design its own encoding scheme that it thinks is reasonable.
In the original technology maturity stage of time and space, the internal code in the English system is ASCII, the internal code commonly used in the Chinese traditional system is big5, and the internal code in the Chinese Simplified Chinese system is the national standard code. Eventually, Unicode was gradually adopted.
Because it is possible for different systems to use different internal codes. Therefore, when exchanging files between each other, garbled characters will occur.
The solution is to convert the files stored in the internal code form into the exchange code form before exchanging the files. After receiving the document, the document receiver converts the exchange code to the internal code.
Similarly, the main users of the code are the CPU, the program, and the developer.
The users of the outer code are ordinary users who are not technical professionals, such as pinyin code, phonetic code and other Chinese input methods.
Phonetic scripts like English have only 26 letters. It is relatively simple to deal with, and the internal code, exchange code, and outer code are the same; But this is not the case with epigraphic characters like kanji. There are thousands of commonly used words alone, and in terms of outer code, no keyboard can accommodate it, and the problem of memory capacity also needs to be considered in terms of internal code, which objectively brings difficulty to the informatization of Chinese characters.
In addition, informational coding is a very difficult skill, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an art.
For example, the Arabic numerals "0" to "9" are encoded from 48 to 57, and the corresponding hexadecimal digits are 30 to 39.
For example, the serial number of the English uppercase letter "A" is encoded as 97, the serial number of the lowercase letter "a" is encoded as 65, and the difference between subtraction is 32.
The alien characters in Chinese traditional also have similar English case conversion needs, but the number of alien characters is often not as simple as two.
Obviously, in addition to skills, the information coding of Chinese characters should also take into account the characteristics of Chinese culture itself.
In the past, Zhu Bangfu's research is to grasp the inner code, the outer code together, for non-technical people, obviously the difficulty is too high, and after Tang Huan intervened, directly let him focus on the exchange code and the outer code, according to the characteristics of Chinese culture to organize traditional characters and design input methods, this is his strength.
Due to the relative standardization of simplified characters, Ni Guangnan was assigned the work of hardware and external codes, as well as glyph codes, that is, how to display them on monitors and printers, that is, the commonly known fonts and fonts.
There are two implementations: dot matrix and vector, the former uses a binary array of 0 and 1 to represent each pixel on the screen, which is simple and easy to use, but consumes a lot of memory space; The latter uses a mathematical calculation formula to save memory space but consume CPU resources.
Therefore, the informatization of Chinese characters is a huge project, and it is not something that can be greedy for the work of heaven as soon as the skin of the mouth is touched on the ground to lower the IQ.
Zheru's Hanka and supporting software, from the launch to the present, after about a year, from relatively mature to very mature.
This is just a simple technical problem, and in reality, it will also involve huge economic disputes and even subtle political games.
In Xiangjiang, a laissez-faire place, with the market share achieved by a generation of Fangyuan computers without rivals, it has formed a de facto industry standard, but in case of a strong competitor, it is not impossible to turn around.
In Singapore, Tang Huan's package of solutions has been officially recognized, and the situation in Chinese mainland is similar, but it has to be packaged to become a national standard.
As for the treasure island, the situation is a little delicate, although a generation of Fangyuan computers has become the current industry standard, but the official has not clearly recognized, which is more intriguing.
In addition, benefiting from the developed economy, Japan has long been one step ahead of the work on Japanese information coding, and in 1978 it formulated the JISX0208 or JIS basic kanji.
But so far, 63 Japanese kanji of unknown provenance, the so-called ghost kanji, have been found in this standard.
After the Japanese official purchased 5,000 first-generation Fangyuan computers, they paid more attention to the difference between the two standards, and Tang Huan had to deal with it himself later.
"In view of the special geographical location of Hong Kong, the promotion work here has an exemplary role that cannot be ignored." Tang Huan emphatically emphasized, "One of the ideas of the plan is the star route, especially artists with college degrees like Xu Guanjie and Guan Zhengjie. My idea is to see if we can organize a group of celebrities, each with a middle school student, to carry out a prize competition for computer applications, and broadcast it on TV stations, after all, the Chinese have always attached importance to the education of the next generation, and there should be many people willing to cooperate, and it would be better if it could be made into an attractive program. Of course, this requires DreamWorks to get involved and cooperate. ”
As the most beautiful scenery in the large conference room, Hu Yinmeng ignored everyone's gaze and nodded calmly in agreement.
Focusing on the second-generation Fangyuan computer and the implementation of a unified standard for Chinese character encoding, Tang Huan held a two-day meeting in full swing, which can be regarded as a high degree of consensus among the management, and the entire operation team in Greater China began to operate at full capacity for new goals.
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