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
gollark: Do you know what that is?
gollark: They're meant to test some underlying general intelligence factor. Correlates quite well with stuff.
gollark: 55 would be ridiculous, that's 3 standard deviations.
gollark: Well, I sometimes ignore norms I don't like and it works fine.
gollark: I use bignums.
References
- 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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