[idn] New proposal for ACE: LACE

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

Greetings again. Mark Davis and I have submitted a new ACE for 
consideration. The reason we wrote LACE is that it is easier to 
figure out than any of the other ACEs. There are no special cases and 
no bit-twiddling in the compression stage. To me, the simplicity of 
LACE makes it more attractive than the ACEs that maybe eke out a few 
extra characters but are prone to implementation mistakes. The output 
lengths are extremely similar to those of RACE, but better for names 
that come from three rows and are more than 16 characters long.

Mark has a general purpose converter available at 
<http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/convert.html> that includes LACE.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
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