public function get_setting() {
        // Here, we need to decode any ascii-encoded IDNs back to their native, utf-8 representation.
        $data = $this->config_read($this->name);
        if (function_exists('idn_to_utf8') && !is_null($data)) {
            $data = $this->ace_decode($data);
        }
        return $data;
    }