Until the 1970's, processors were too complicated to fit on one chip, so mainframe processors were built from boards containing many chips. Intel introduced the first 4-bit microprocessor, called the 4004, in 1971. Now, even the most sophisticated supercomputers are built using microprocessors. ...
Unicode is more complicated. We use the OS's LCMapStringEx function to normalize the text. Because the world is a big place, it has a very hard problem to solve. 'U' and 'u' and 'u-with-umlaut' should all be sorted together (depending on the flags that are passed in). This ...
I’ve taught many introduction courses in Chinese. Each time, I’ve felt the lack of a beginner-friendly list of the most common Chinese radicals. I tell students that learningcharacter componentsis essential, and that it’s a long-term investment that will pay off several times over the co...