Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 233 Promoting the Uniform Standard of Chinese Character Coding
"How do you know? Could it be that my record sales are dismal and it has become an open secret." Tang Huan asked in surprise, "Forget it, the more I talk about it, the bigger the blow will be. Let's complete the task quickly. "Farewell My Concubine" is dedicated to everyone."

Tang Huan's singing skills are the same as Luo Wen, who has a background in Cantonese opera. His words are correct and his accent is smooth, but in terms of specific expression, he is similar to Lin Zixiang, more impactful and explosive.

Tang Huan on the stage at this time, his eyes and movements were full of momentum. After listening to this, people could not help but feel their blood welling up and their scalps numb. Especially among Tang Huan's subordinates, they felt like soldiers following the general to conquer all directions. The heroism.

This contagious effect may be related to the rapid rise of Tang Huan's career and status recently. Under the triumphant spring breeze, when performing, with the help of the form of art, he unknowingly walks like a dragon and shows his arrogance.

"What an overlord who looks down on the world." Huang Zhan, who was in the audience, praised him.

"Since I appreciate him so much, I will focus on 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 Yulin advertising company jointly founded by the two.

At this moment, Shen Dianxia walked to the front of the stage and said to Tang Huan who was about to leave after singing: "Mr. Tang, your record sales are not bad, especially recently because of someone's favor, which has increased a bit."

"Is there such a thing? I really don't know, which nobleman helped me?" Tang Huan asked cooperatively.

"Mr. Tang is a busy person. It's normal not to know. She is Ms. Zhang Delan from DreamWorks." Shen Dianxia joked, "Should you prepare a red envelope to thank the artists in your company?"

"Should, should, I was negligent." Tang Huan made a motion to wipe his sweat, and the petite and exquisite new generation of singer Zhang Delan had already walked over.

"Men and women duet, "Choice"." After Shen Dianxia finished reporting, Tang Huan took Zhang Delan's hand and began to complete the last stage task.

After these two Mandarin songs, Zhang Delan sang the recently popular Cantonese song "Lost Promise" solo.

Every singer, if he wants to develop in the long run, must have his own masterpiece, just like Ye Liyi in the original time and space, a hit "Shanghai Beach" episode, let her occupy a place in the Hong Kong music scene, And the current Zhang Delan, after entering DreamWorks, also got this opportunity.

How fierce is the competition in the show business circle? Originally, tonight's performance lineup was full of stars. As a result, Tang Huan, who was originally a playboy, immediately mobilized the atmosphere. The next stars will naturally have to show their best state to deal with it. The whole show The splendor of the party can be imagined.

For example, Xu Guanjie sang the title song of his third Cantonese album "Half a Catty Eight Liang". The role of the vase.

After "Half Catty" was released in Japan in February 1979, it became very popular and created the Mr.Boo! Comedy movie series. The next few comedy movies released by the Xu Brothers all used Mr. Boo! as the title, and this song "Half a Catty Eight Liang" has also been changed into a Japanese version.

It can be said that the best-selling album "Half a Catty" was the first peak of Xu Guanjie's singing career, and his next performance "The Voice of the Prodigal Son" was also well-known in the streets.

Tang Huan was nodding his head as he watched from the audience. The Xu Brothers were truly extraordinary. The movie "Modern Bodyguard" they are currently filming will be the first Chinese New Year movie in Hong Kong next year, with a box office of more than 1700 million Hong Kong dollars. While breaking Xiangjiang's box office record again, it was crowned the annual box office champion.

This is better, his advertising effect will increase, and his university degree is more in line with the positioning of high-tech products. It is necessary to sign a long-term contract.

There was an interlude during the party. Zheng Shaoqiu sang "Turn Around" and Wang Mingquan sang "Steal the Heart with Love". The former is the theme song of the TVB TV series "Turn Around" which was just cut in half, and the latter is the dream to turn the tide. The artists would not think too much about the theme song of the factory's new work "The King of Kings". They could just do what the organizer asked of them, but the higher-ups would naturally be more thoughtful. Fang Yihua's expression changed after seeing the order of the show's appearance. He glanced unpleasantly at Hu Yinmeng next to him, who was admiring it with interest.

The final performer was naturally Deng Lijun, who sang "Shanghai Beach" and "Thousands of Miles Away", which brought the party to a perfect end.

Looking at Deng Lijun who is in a better state than before, Fang Yihua thought deeply, "Dragon Babu" TV series can borrow the wind of video games, so you can also ask Deng Lijun to sing an episode of TVB's upcoming TV series, such as "Incompatibility".

When the scandal between Deng Lijun and Tang Huan reached Xiangjiang in the middle of last year, it was just a small topic of conversation, but today it seems to be of great significance.

Fang Yihua glanced at Hu Yinmeng again, girl, Jiang is still old and hot, and using strength to fight is a profound knowledge.

When prosperity finally comes to an end, before leaving, Tang Huan couldn't help but feel something when he looked at the couplets on both sides of the stage - "Benefiting from all the countries in the southeast, wearing clothes and clothes, coming to the resort, dancing and conquering the imperial edict, filling the stage with futons and pipes playing to the sky." Sighed.

Xiangjiang, a small place, could not form a large-scale production base after all. The profit-seeking nature of free capital made most of the land use become commercial buildings in the end.

This long-established Lee Theater 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. It was demolished in 1991 and rebuilt into a commercial building mainly for shopping and restaurants. That's the stage square.

So the current situation is that there is no other choice for the computer production base, only Baodao has complete supporting facilities and low cost, followed by Singapore, which has a smaller area, while the mainland is still starting slowly.

Fortunately, his status as a billionaire born in the United States is enough for him to ignore small-scale political risks with ease in these regions holding the thighs of the United States.

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Compared with yesterday's lively party, today's Greater China mid-level and high-level meeting is much more solemn.

Sitting in the center was Tang Huan, with Huang Gencheng, Zhou Mi, Zhu Bangfu, Ni Guangnan and others on his left, and Jian Mingren, Shi Chongtang, Zhou Weikun, Feng Xingjun and others on his right. Hu Yinmeng, who didn't want to be a vase, was forcibly placed in a Location.

"Everyone, the second-generation Fangyuan personal computer has been successfully developed, and its performance is sufficient to ensure that the life cycle of mid-to-high-end products is at least three years among the world's peers." Tang Huan made a judgment confidently.

"My job requirements for everyone can be summed up in two points. The first is market share, turning the Asian market into our own back garden. At present, the three series of products, MC68000, Intel 8086, and MOS6502, have fully covered high, middle and low-end products. Second, the software platform is also unified, which is an advantage that competitors such as IBM, HP, DEC, Wang An Computer, NEC, etc. have not been able to achieve for the time being, and it should not be a big problem to achieve this goal."

Tang Huan looked around the crowd, "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 the unified standard of Chinese character encoding. This matter is private. In other words, it is to let the company master the industry standards and remain invincible; in public terms, it is as great as papermaking and printing. The sooner Chinese characters get on the train of informatization, the inheritance and development of Chinese culture must also be A new opportunity will be ushered in sooner. With this unified standard, the industry will not need to waste resources on [-] yards of galloping, and just focus on how to develop new functions of Chinese computers. Everyone has no worries about food and clothing. I must be willing to participate in some elegant events that will be famous in history."

Tang Huan was so good at bewitching people's minds that his subordinates' eyes lit up.

The cornerstone of computer data processing is information coding. For processing characters, it is like first setting up 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 code, and the computer can only recognize characters through this serial number code.

Around this serial number coding, three concepts of meaning association are produced, namely inner code, exchange code and outer code.

The internal code is a serial number code that exists in the computer memory and is used by the CPU, programs and developers.

Just like a hundred schools of thought contending in the United States and all kinds of personal computers, each manufacturer can create a set of its own unique hardware architecture, and the same is true for the internal code.

It is not difficult to imagine that in the eyes of the engineers of the IBM Chess Project, no matter whether you are a letter or a Chinese character, it is all an abstract serial number code.

Especially limited by the capacity of the current memory, each manufacturer has more reason to design a coding scheme that they think is reasonable.

In the mature stage of technology in the original time and space, the internal code in the English system is ASCII, the commonly used internal code in the traditional Chinese system is big5, and the internal code in the simplified Chinese system is the national standard code, and finally uniformly adopts Unicode.

Because different systems may use different internal codes.Therefore, when exchanging files between each other, garbled characters will occur.

The solution is that before exchanging files, the file provider first converts the files stored in the internal code form into the exchange code form before exchanging.After the file receiver receives the file, the exchange code is converted into an internal code.

Similarly, the main users of the exchange code are the CPU, programs and developers.

The users facing the external codes are ordinary users who are not technical professionals, such as various Chinese input methods such as pinyin codes and phonetic codes.

Phonetic characters like English have only 26 letters, so it is relatively simple to deal with, and the inner code, exchange code, and outer code are the same; Thousands, the outer code, no keyboard can accommodate it, and the internal code also needs to consider the memory capacity, which objectively brings difficulties to the informatization of Chinese characters.

In addition, information coding is a test of skill, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an art.

比如阿拉伯数字“0”到“9”的序号编码为48到57，对应的十六进制数字是30到39，只需一步简单的逻辑操作，就可以在序号编码和真实数字之间相互转换。

For another example, the serial number code of the English uppercase letter "A" is 97, and the serial number code of the lowercase letter "a" is 65. The subtraction difference is 32. All uppercase and lowercase letters have this gap. This is not accidental, and it only takes one simple step. The logical operation can easily convert between uppercase and lowercase.

Irregular characters in traditional Chinese also have the need to switch back and forth between upper and lower case similar to English, but the number of idiosyncratic characters is often not as simple as just two.

Obviously, in addition to skills, Chinese character information coding must also take into account the characteristics of Chinese culture itself.

In the past, Zhu Bangfu’s research focused on internal codes and external codes. For non-technical people, it was obviously too difficult. It is his strength to organize traditional characters with different shapes and design input methods.

Due to the relative standardization of simplified characters, Ni Guangnan was assigned the work of hardware and external codes, as well as font codes, that is, how to display them on monitors and printers, that is, fonts and fonts that are often called.

There are two implementation methods: dot matrix type and vector type. 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 mathematical calculation formulas, saving Memory space, but consumes CPU resources.

Therefore, the informatization of Chinese characters is a huge project, and it is not something that can be achieved by lowering the IQ of the mouth and touching the mouth.

Zheru's Chinese card and supporting software, from the launch to the present, has gone through a year or so before it has changed from relatively mature to very mature.

This is just a purely technical issue. In reality, it will also involve huge economic disputes and even subtle political games.

In Xiangjiang, a laissez-faire place, the market share achieved by the first-generation Fangyuan computer without rivals has formed a de facto industry standard, but if a strong competitor comes, it is not impossible to come back.

In Singapore, the government has approved Tang Huan's package solution, and the situation in mainland China is similar, but it needs to be packaged to become a national standard.

As for Baodao, the situation is a bit delicate. Although the first-generation Fangyuan computer has become the current industry standard, it has not been officially recognized by the government, which is intriguing.

In addition, benefiting from a developed economy, Japan has already started the work of Japanese informatization coding one step ahead. It formulated JIS X 1978 in 0208, that is, JIS basic Chinese characters.

But so far, 63 Japanese kanji of unknown origin, so-called ghost kanji, have been found in this standard.

After the Japanese government purchased 5000 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 Xiangjiang's special geographical position, the promotion work here has a demonstration effect that cannot be ignored." Tang Huan emphasized, "One of the ideas of the plan is the star route, especially those with college degrees like Xu Guanjie and Guan Zhengjie. Entertainer. My idea is to see if we can organize a group of celebrities, each with a middle school student, to conduct a prize-winning contest on computer applications and broadcast it on TV. After all, the Chinese have always attached importance to the education of the next generation, and there should be many people who are willing to cooperate. Yes, it would be even better if it can be made into an attractive program. Of course, this requires the participation and cooperation of DreamWorks."

As the most beautiful scenery in the conference room, Hu Yinmeng ignored everyone's gazes and calmly nodded in agreement.

Focusing on the second-generation Fangyuan computer and the implementation of the unified standard of Chinese character encoding, Tang Huan held a two-day meeting intensively. It can be regarded as reaching a high degree of consensus among the management. The entire operation team in Greater China began to work hard for the new goal It works like a horse.

Tang Huan took time before the Mid-Autumn Festival to visit Boss Huo, the chartering king and other connections.

These Chinese-funded bosses who operate traditional industries have already tasted obvious benefits from the application of a generation of Fangyuan computers. The most direct manifestation is that the spreadsheet software and database have increased their financial statement generation speed by an order of magnitude. It is impossible not to care about the changes in the numbers with his hard-earned family fortune.

And with the title of American billionaire in their arms, they have grown a lot older, and they have to admit on the surface that Tang Huan is already at the same level. Fortunately, this young man is as humble as ever Polite, but not annoying.

In addition, some subtle changes in social situations are also obvious. For example, celebrities no longer care about the rumors that he is entangled with female stars, and they often make secret glances while smiling and charming.

In this regard, Tang Huan was afraid to avoid it.

The reason why he likes to search for celebrities in the original time and space from his memory is because like a listed company that regularly discloses information, whether it is praise or criticism, his privacy is exposed to the public, and his temper can be inferred from those clues.

Taking women as an example, Deng Lijun, Lin Fengjiao, Lin Qingxia, and Zhao Yazhi are all gentle women with mature thoughts, but they each have different sides. , You can completely follow the general strategy, get along with each other with ease, and always take the initiative in your own hands.

It can be said that what Tang Huan needs is order, but none of these people has a fuel-efficient lamp, and if it is stained, it will cause endless troubles
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According to the historical development, the border war between Iran and Iraq in the Middle East finally broke out on September 9. This is directly related to Tang Huan, who obtained thousands of million dollars in personal income.

In fact, many smart people have speculated successfully.

After all, since April, border conflicts between Iran and Iran have emerged.

Even on April 4, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Aziz was injured by an Iranian. The various military actions of the two sides have long been an open secret.

(End of this chapter)