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Punycode

name

Etymology

Blend of puny + Unicode.

  1. derived from cōdex
  2. derived from code
  3. inherited from code — “system of law”
  4. prefixed as unicode — “uni- + code”
  5. compounded as punycode — “puny + Unicode”

Definitions

  1. A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the…

    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).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Punycode. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA