Source: Original manuscript of People's Daily Online
People's Daily Online, Beijing, April 20th (Wei Yanxing) April 20th, the Grain Rain solar term, is also the 14th United Nations Chinese Language Day. The WeChat mini-program "Collection of Rare Characters" was launched. The public can submit rare characters with zero threshold, so that those who cannot input Displayed Chinese characters enter the digital world.
Among all the characters in the world, Chinese characters are the only character form that has been evolving without interruption since its birth. It guarantees the continuous inheritance of Chinese culture and is the root of Chinese culture. The transmission of characters is faced with the problem of the evolution of "carriage". The carrier of Chinese characters has successively experienced the change process of tortoise shell and animal bone, bronze and jade, bamboo slips and wooden tablets, and silk paper. universal.
According to statistics, the total number of Chinese characters currently exceeds 100,000, but in the digital age, about 70% of them face the risk of being "lost". In the digital age, when the writing tools of Chinese characters have changed from pens to keyboards, and the writing carrier has changed from paper to digital terminals, the dissemination of Chinese characters has become more and more dependent on digital information systems. At present, most information systems can input and display more than 30,000 Chinese characters normally, and more than 70,000 characters have not been fully digitized and cannot be used in networks and databases. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 60 million names in China, and a large number of place names, ancient books, and dialects contain rare characters. Most of them lack common codes in computer systems, and cannot be smoothly input and displayed in digital devices, which brings many public life and social problems. Service conundrum.
The orderly advancement of "digitalization of Chinese characters" is entering a new stage. The "New National Standard" announced in August last year is a mandatory standard. From August 1, 2023, products and systems for government services and public services will have to support 87,887 Chinese characters within the standard. In November 2022, Tencent joined hands with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Institute of Electronic Industry Standardization and ecological partners to launch the "Chinese Character Protection Plan" public welfare action, targeting at names, place names, ancient books and other rare characters in scenes, from collection to textual research, code assignment, expansion of fonts, From font design to input method adaptation and application display, the whole process is assisted, so that rare characters can be revived in the digital age.
Protecting the culture of Chinese characters and solving the problem of rare characters requires the leadership of the government, the support of enterprises and institutions, and the participation of the public. The "Rare Character Collection" applet launched by the "Chinese Character Guardian Program" is open to the public. It is the entry point for the submission of rare characters under the guidance of the Electronic Industry Standardization Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Identity", to achieve input and display, and include it into the national standard character set, and truly realize retention and application in the digital age.
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