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27 package org.apache.http.client.utils;
28
29 /**
30 * Abstraction of international domain name (IDN) conversion.
31 *
32 * @deprecated (4.4) use standard {@link java.net.IDN}.
33 *
34 * @since 4.0
35 */
36 @Deprecated
37 public interface Idn {
38 /**
39 * Converts a name from its punycode representation to Unicode.
40 * The name may be a single hostname or a dot-separated qualified domain name.
41 * @param punycode the Punycode representation
42 * @return the Unicode domain name
43 */
44 String toUnicode(String punycode);
45 }