RACE encoding is a method for encoding foreign languages that use non-English characters (Chinese, Japanese, etc.) in ASCII

ASCII

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...

 characters for storage in domain name system

Domain name system

The Domain Name System is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities...

 servers. All names without non-English characters are unchanged. RACE codes are made up of digits, letters and dashes.

RACE encoding is part of the larger scheme of the Universal Character Set

Universal Character Set

The Universal Character Set , defined by the International Standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal multiple-octet coded character set , is a standard set of characters upon which many character encodings are based...

 specifically the ISO/IEC 10646. The assignment of characters also coincides with Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

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Nomenclature

RACE is an acronym for its main purpose.

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

External links

• Acmqueue.com, DNS Complexity, Paul Vixie
  Paul Vixie
  Paul Vixie is an American Internet pioneer, the author of several RFCs and well-known Unix software.Vixie attended George Washington High School in San Francisco, California. He received a Ph.D in computer science from Keio University in 2011....
  
  , ACM
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