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- ASCII-compatible encodingACE
The encoding form produced by the Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) protocol. IDNA uses the Punycode algorithm to generate an ASCII domain, known as an A-label, within the Domain Name System. ACE is used to encode Unicode strings for applications that cannot reliably handle values other than ASCII characters.