What is the concept of Punycode in Node.js?

In Node.js, the concept of Punycode is used for converting one type of string into another type. Punycode is an encoding syntax used for converting Unicode (UTF-8) string of characters into a basic ASCII string of characters. Now, the hostnames can only understand the ASCII characters so, after the Node.js version 0.6.2 onwards, it was bundled up with the default Node package.

To use it with any previous versions, you have to use the following code:

Syntax:

  1. punycode = require(‘punycode’);