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I wondered about this back in October when I read the ietf
docs on this. I thought, here's all the information I need to encode to RACE and
start registering names. But, the documentation stated at that the prefix **--
could be changed several times before the actual start of registration. After
playing with RACE, I saw people were actually betting on the bq-- prefix to
stick.
Looking at the RACE.cgi documentation in the
OpenSRS_v.2.22_Perl_Client_Manual.pdf file, it states that "Names registered in
the fashion (directly as encoded RACE strings) without sending through the
Character Encoding type would not be recognized as multilingual names." So each
encoded RACE string has to have an encoding type associated with it. Makes
sense, as you could have the same RACE equivalents in say Japanese and Chinese
for different kanji representations.
James Woods responded to a direct mail about this confirming
that this sort of speculation is just that, speculation.
Cheers,
Bill
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