Punycode

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

  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.,...

Origin

Blend of puny + Unicode.

Forms

punycode