NAME

       Net::IDN::Punycode - A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for IDNA (RFC 3492)

SYNOPSIS

         use Net::IDN::Punycode qw(:all);
         $punycode = encode_punycode($unicode);
         $unicode  = decode_punycode($punycode);

DESCRIPTION

       This module 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/IDNA2008/PRECIS and
       does not add nor remove the ACE prefix ("xn--"). Thus, use Net::IDN::Encode if you want to convert domain
       names.

WARNING

       Usually, it is not a good idea to use this module directly. If you convert domain labels (or other
       strings) without proper prepration, you may end up with an ASCII encoding that is not interoperable or
       even poses security issues due to spoofing.

       Even if you think that your domain names are valid and already mapped to the correct form, you might be
       fooled by different Unicode normalization forms (for example, some environments might automatically
       convert your data to NFD, which breaks IDNA).

FUNCTIONS

       No functions are exported by default. You can use the tag ":all" or import them individually.

       The following functions are available:

       encode_punycode($input)
           Encodes $input with Punycode and returns the result.

           This function will throw an exception on invalid/unencodable input.

       decode_punycode($input)
           Decodes $input with Punycode and returns the result.

           This function will throw an exception on invalid input.

AUTHORS

       Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net> (versions 0.01 to 0.02)

       Claus Faerber <CFAERBER@cpan.org> (versions 1.000 and higher)

LICENSE

       Copyright 2002-2004 Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

       Copyright 2007-2013 Claus Faerber <CFAERBER@cpan.org>

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

SEE ALSO

       RFC 3492 (<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3492.txt>), IETF::ACE, Convert::RACE

perl v5.18.1                                       2014-01-03                            Net::IDN::Punycode(3pm)