Punycode en · PROPN
Etymology
Blend of puny + Unicode.
Meanings
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A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.
Punycode is an encoding, or an escape scheme (depending on how you look at it), for a specific purpose: implementing Internationalized Domain Names (IDN).
2006, Jukka Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 322:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| punycode | alternative | lexicographic |