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Ascii vs Punycode - What's the difference?

ascii | punycode |

In computing|lang=en terms the difference between ascii and punycode

is that ascii is (computing) while punycode is (computing) a mapping from unicode to the simpler ascii character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where unicode is not available.

As a noun ascii

is (obsolete).

As a proper noun punycode is

(computing) a mapping from unicode to the simpler ascii character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where unicode is not available.

ascii

English

Alternative forms

* ascii

Proper noun

(wikipedia ASCII) (en proper noun)
  • (computing) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

    • Related terms

    * ASCIIbetical * ASCII art * extended ASCII

    See also

    * EBCDIC * Unicode * * * * * The official ISO standards document, standard 006.

    Anagrams

    *

    punycode

    English

    (wikipedia Punycode)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (computing) A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.