Timeline for Historical: How was Chinese written in telegrams and early computers?
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| Jul 19, 2018 at 13:48 | comment | added | fefe | The only mentioned code in zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E7%94%B5%E7%A0%81 is morse code, but two versions are listed for numbers, and it said the "short version" is usually used for Chinese characters. I don't know about the Baudot code. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 12:02 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Again, you mention Morse code. Are you sure it was Morse code? I think that by 1900 or so, most countries had replaced Morse code by the Baudot code or something similar for sending telegrams. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 11:37 | comment | added | T Nierath | In theory, in reality it was also a memory problem in a world where 64K "ought to be enough". The Japanese solved Chinese Character display and input in the early 1980s, but only for high end machines, initially via custom hardware. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 11:30 | comment | added | fefe | Displaying is a font problem. You can map numbers into the shape of an English letter, then you can also map it into the shape of a Chinese character. But it is a much larger map, and I think it should be a big problem in the early days. Pre-1980 is before my time, the first computer I saw was in the 90s. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 11:21 | comment | added | T Nierath | Thanks again, I'm holding out for answers regarding pre-1980 computers. After all, not only encoding but also display of Chinese Characters was a highly demanding task for early machines. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 11:17 | comment | added | fefe | The telegram code has 10,000 code points (from 0000 to 9999), most of them are characters. GB2312 contains 6763 Chinese characters. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 11:16 | comment | added | fefe | I don't know if the character set used in telegram and GB are related. A quick search didn't give me the answer. But they should both contain the most common characters in Chinese, so I think they must overlap a lot. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 11:08 | history | edited | fefe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2018 at 10:47 | comment | added | T Nierath | Was a standardized character set used and was it related to the later GB(K)? Do you also have knowledge of early computers? | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 10:42 | history | answered | fefe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |