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Unicode vs Punycode - What's the difference?

unicode | punycode |

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.

unicode

English

(wikipedia Unicode)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (computing) A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
  • (computing) The Unicode standards together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.

    • See also

    * ASCII * EBCDIC * * * *

    External links

    * Unicode website ----

    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.