Digitization of Chinese characters

As a carrier of information, Chinese characters must be digitized in order to operate, store, and circulate on the information "highway". The Chinese character laser typesetting system achieves efficient typesetting and printing of Chinese characters, while GB2312 provides a unified coding standard for computer processing of Chinese characters, greatly promoting the development of Chinese information processing technology.

The unit is designed for unsupervised public use: controls are recessed or shielded, moving parts are enclosed, and the interface is operable by a child of about six with no instruction. Where a screen is used, the language can be switched without changing the hardware, and the content can be replaced on site.

After entering the 20th century, the rapid development of computers has led to the abandonment of Chinese characters in the information age. Chinese character laser typesetting: Starting from the mid-1970s, Academician Wang Xuan's team worked hard to develop a Chinese character information processing and laser typesetting system. One of the key parts is to vectorize Chinese characters. This means that each Chinese character is transformed into a shape composed of a series of mathematically defined curves, rather than a pixel matrix like a bitmap. The advantage of vectorization is that it can output clear text at any resolution and occupies much less storage space compared to bitmap methods, which is a huge advantage for early computers with limited storage resources. GB2312 encoding: The original ASCII code could only represent 128 characters and could not meet the storage requirements of tens of thousands of Chinese characters. In 1980, China released its first Chinese character coding standard, GB23.