Punycode

English

Alternative forms

• punycode

Etymology

Blend of puny +‎ Unicode

Proper noun

Punycode

1. (computing) A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.
   • 2006, Jukka Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 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).

Further reading

• Punycode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia