> How about just "ACE"? Or, if people really think there will be future > ACEs, "ACE-1"?
First let me clarify what I am trying to name. I want a name for the transformation from any Unicode string to an ASCII string (and the reverse transformation). The thing I am naming does not include the prefix (xx--), does not include syntax restrictions like the 63-octet limit, and does not include nameprep. The thing I am naming is the operations performed by the pseudocode in the AMC-ACE-Z spec, and no more. If people are willing to use the name ACE or ACE-1 for this, that would be fine with me. But if you would rather use the name ACE to refer to a larger operation, then I still want a name for the thing I just described. (Up to now, ACE has been a fuzzy term. It hasn't been clear where its boundaries were.) I usually don't like acronyms, but ACE is not bad. I never like acronyms that are misspellings of real words, so I'd rather not use BACE, CHACE, or SUITCACE. AMC
