NAME

Encode::Punycode - Encode plugin for Punycode (RFC 3492)

SYNOPSIS

  use Encode;

  $unicode  = decode('Punycode', $punycode);
  $punycode = encode('Punycode', $unicode);

DESCRIPTION

Encode::Punycode is an Encode plugin, which implements the Punycode encoding. Punycode is an instance of a more general algorithm called Bootstring, which allows strings composed from a small set of "basic" code points to uniquely represent any string of code points drawn from a larger set. Punycode is Bootstring with particular parameter values appropriate for IDNA.

Note that this module does not do any string preparation as specified by nameprep/stringprep. It does not do add any prefix or suffix, either.

AUTHOR / LICENSE

Claus Färber <CFAERBER@cpan.org>

Previous versions written by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Encode, Net::IDN::Punycode, RFC 3492 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3492.txt