punycode_from_string()

Applies to: ✅ Microsoft Fabric ✅ Azure Data Explorer ✅ Azure Monitor ✅ Microsoft Sentinel

Encodes input string to Punycode form. The result string contains only ASCII characters. The result string doesn't start with "xn--".

Syntax

punycode_from_string('input_string')

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Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
input_string	string	✔️	A string to be encoded to punycode form. The function accepts one string argument.

Returns

• Returns a string that represents punycode-encoded original string.
• Returns an empty result if encoding failed.

Examples

Run the query

 print encoded = punycode_from_string('académie-française')

encoded
acadmie-franaise-npb1a

Run the query

 print domain='艺术.com'
| extend domain_vec = split(domain, '.')
| extend encoded_host = punycode_from_string(tostring(domain_vec[0]))
| extend encoded_domain = strcat('xn--', encoded_host, '.', domain_vec[1])

domain	domain_vec	encoded_host	encoded_domain
艺术.com	["艺术","com"]	cqv902d	xn--cqv902d.com

Related content

• Use punycode_to_string() to retrieve the original decoded string.