On August 17th, the Institute of Electronics Industry Standardization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held a publicity meeting on the mandatory national standard GB 18030-2022 "Chinese Character Set for Information Technology". Under the guidance of this standard, Tencent sogou input method was the first input method product in the industry to support the full number of Chinese characters in the standard, and obtained the highest level (realization level 3) certification.
Photo: sogou input method award-winning scene
In order to standardize the input, storage and circulation of Chinese characters in various information processing systems, and solve the problem of using uncommon words such as names and place names, in July 2022, the State Administration of Market Supervision issued the mandatory national standard GB 18030-2022 "Chinese Coded Character Set for Information Technology". In order to meet the requirements of different products and scenes, the standard set up three implementation levels. Among them, the information technology products and systems of government services and public services are required to achieve level 3, that is, all 88,115 Chinese characters in the standard are compulsory.
In November last year, Tencent sogou Input Method took the lead in responding to this standard, releasing the industry’s first "uncommon keyboard", and taking the lead in supporting the input of more than 90,000 Chinese characters on the mobile side. In view of the fact that users only know how to read and don’t know how to pronounce, the keyboard of uncommon characters realizes three convenient input methods: stroke input, pinyin input of split radicals, and mixed input of pinyin and strokes. Take the word "Tong" as an example. Without knowing the pinyin, users can split the pinyin of radicals and enter "ren gong".
Figure: sogou input method uncommon word keyboard
Facing the vertical industry, Tencent sogou Input Method has launched industry solutions to help solve the rare word problems in the fields of public services and government services such as finance, medical care, transportation, public facilities, social security, warehousing and postal services. At present, this scheme has taken the lead in the financial field. Tencent sogou Input Method and the customized solution "Golden Label Input Method" launched by Beijing National Institute of Financial Standardization have been applied in hundreds of banks to solve the problems of online banking authentication, account opening and online transfer.
In order to let more rare words enter the digital world, Tencent sogou Input Method has jointly launched the "Chinese Character Protection Program" with the Institute of Electronic Industry Standardization of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Guangming Daily All Media, Beijing National Institute of Financial Standardization, Hanyi Font Library, OPPO, Shaanxi History Museum and other units, and collected the new version of uncoded rare words outside the national standard for the public through the "Rare Word Collection applet". Up to now, there are more than 8 million users of the "Rare Word Collection applet", of which about 30,000 people participated in the submission, and a total of 5,500 rare words have been collected. After being duplicated, more than 300 rare words have been verified and reviewed by experts, which is expected to be included in the new national standard and international standard.
Digitization of Chinese characters is a social systematic project, from standard formulation to Chinese character collection, textual research, coding, font design, and then to the adaptation of software and hardware manufacturers such as input method and operating system, it needs the help of many parties to get through this link. Sun Wenlong, vice president of the Electronics Industry Standardization Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the press conference of upgrading the Chinese character protection program on April 23rd: "The informationization of language and characters cannot be separated from the joint efforts of all parties. I hope that everyone will work together to promote the application and implementation of the new national standard, continuously improve the standard system of language and information technology, and jointly support the high-quality development of language and information technology. "
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