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==Origin of the name== The RFC author, Adam Costello, is reported to have written: <blockquote> Why “Punycode”? It rhymes with Unicode and is intended to encode Unicode strings. It is “puny” in three senses: The repertoire of characters used in the encoded strings is small, the encoded strings are short, and the implementation is small.<ref>{{cite web |author=Maximillian Laumeister |date=18 July 2020 |title=Why Is It Called “Punycode”? |url=https://www.maxlaumeister.com/articles/why-is-it-called-punycode/ |access-date=13 January 2025}}</ref> </blockquote>
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