RACE encoding

RACE encoding is a method for encoding foreign languages that use non-English characters (Chinese, Japanese, etc.) in ASCII characters for storage in domain name system servers. ^[1] All names without non-English characters are unchanged. RACE codes are made up of digits, letters and dashes.^[2]

RACE encoding is part of the larger scheme of the Universal Character Set specifically the ISO/IEC 10646. The assignment of characters also coincides with Unicode.^[1]

Today, it is mostly abandoned in favor of punycode.

Nomenclature

RACE is an acronym for its main purpose.

R stands for Row-based
A for ASCII
C for Compatible
E Encoding

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idn-race-03 Row-based ASCII Compatible Encoding for IDN
↑ "Definition of: RACE encoding" by PC Mag Encyclopedia

External links

Acmqueue.com, DNS Complexity, Paul Vixie, ACM Queue

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