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U-label
A label, composed of a valid Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) string of Unicode characters, that is in proper form and contains at least one non-ASCII character. A U-label expresses a label in the form that users expect to see it displayed in applications. U-labels are digitally represented in a Unicode encoding format such as UTF-8.