<s>
RACE	B-Protocol
encoding	I-Protocol
is	O
a	O
method	O
for	O
encoding	O
foreign	O
languages	O
that	O
use	O
non-English	O
characters	O
(	O
Chinese	O
,	O
Japanese	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
in	O
ASCII	B-Protocol
characters	I-Protocol
for	O
storage	O
in	O
domain	B-Protocol
name	I-Protocol
system	I-Protocol
servers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
RACE	B-Protocol
encoding	I-Protocol
is	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
larger	O
scheme	O
of	O
the	O
Universal	O
Character	O
Set	O
specifically	O
the	O
ISO/IEC	O
10646	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Today	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
mostly	O
abandoned	O
in	O
favor	O
of	O
punycode	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
