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Punycode
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English
Alternative forms
en punycode
Etymology
en puny Unicode.
Proper noun
en computing A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.
en 2006 Jukka Korpela Unicode Explained O'Reilly Media, Inc. 9780596101213 322 Punycode is an encoding, or an escape scheme (depending on how you look at it), for a specific purpose: implementing Internationalized Domain Names (IDN).
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