URI::_punycode(3pm)

URI::_punycode3pm

Encodes unicode string in punycode

Usage

  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use utf8;
  use URI::_punycode qw(encode_punycode decode_punycode);
  # encode a unicode string
  my $punycode = encode_punycode('http://☃.net'); # http://.net-xc8g
  $punycode = encode_punycode('bücher'); # bcher-kva
  $punycode = encode_punycode('他们为什么不说中文'); # ihqwcrb4cv8a8dqg056pqjye
  # decode a punycode string back into a unicode string
  my $unicode = decode_punycode('http://.net-xc8g'); # http://☃.net
  $unicode = decode_punycode('bcher-kva'); # bücher
  $unicode = decode_punycode('ihqwcrb4cv8a8dqg056pqjye'); # 他们为什么不说中文

Overview

URI::_punycode is a module to encode / decode Unicode strings into Punycode <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3492>, an efficient encoding of Unicode for use with IDNA <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5890>.

Functions

All functions throw exceptions on failure. You can "catch" them with Syntax::Keyword::Try or Try::Tiny. The following functions are exported by default.

encode_punycode

  my $punycode = encode_punycode('http://☃.net');  # http://.net-xc8g
  $punycode = encode_punycode('bücher'); # bcher-kva
  $punycode = encode_punycode('他们为什么不说中文') # ihqwcrb4cv8a8dqg056pqjye

Takes a Unicode string (UTF8-flagged variable) and returns a Punycode encoding for it.

decode_punycode

  my $unicode = decode_punycode('http://.net-xc8g'); # http://☃.net
  $unicode = decode_punycode('bcher-kva'); # bücher
  $unicode = decode_punycode('ihqwcrb4cv8a8dqg056pqjye'); # 他们为什么不说中文

Takes a Punycode encoding and returns original Unicode string.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

Author

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <[email protected]> is the author of IDNA::Punycode which was the basis for this module.

From perl-uri 5.40-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.