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30
31 package org.apache.http.client.utils;
32
33 /**
34 * Abstraction of international domain name (IDN) conversion.
35 *
36 * @since 4.0
37 */
38 public interface Idn {
39 /**
40 * Converts a name from its punycode representation to Unicode.
41 * The name may be a single hostname or a dot-separated qualified domain name.
42 * @param punycode the Punycode representation
43 * @return the Unicode domain name
44 */
45 String toUnicode(String punycode);
46 }