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Punycode

Punycode proper noun: a mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.

Proper noun

Punycode

  1. 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 of Punycode

alternative formpunycode

Origin of Punycode

Blend of puny + Unicode.

Questions about Punycode

What does Punycode mean?
Punycode means a mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.
What part of speech is Punycode?
Punycode is a proper noun.

Words near Punycode in the dictionary

  1. punty
  2. Punu
  3. punx
  4. Punxsutawney
  5. puny
  6. Punycode
  7. punyish
  8. punyism
  9. punyness
  10. Punyu
  11. Punzalan

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