function encode(input) {
		var n,
		    delta,
		    handledCPCount,
		    basicLength,
		    bias,
		    j,
		    m,
		    q,
		    k,
		    t,
		    currentValue,
		    output = [],
		    /** `inputLength` will hold the number of code points in `input`. */
		    inputLength,
		    /** Cached calculation results */
		    handledCPCountPlusOne,
		    baseMinusT,
		    qMinusT;

		// Convert the input in UCS-2 to Unicode
		input = ucs2decode(input);

		// Cache the length
		inputLength = input.length;

		// Initialize the state
		n = initialN;
		delta = 0;
		bias = initialBias;

		// Handle the basic code points
		for (j = 0; j < inputLength; ++j) {
			currentValue = input[j];
			if (currentValue < 0x80) {
				output.push(stringFromCharCode(currentValue));
			}
		}

		handledCPCount = basicLength = output.length;

		// `handledCPCount` is the number of code points that have been handled;
		// `basicLength` is the number of basic code points.

		// Finish the basic string - if it is not empty - with a delimiter
		if (basicLength) {
			output.push(delimiter);
		}

		// Main encoding loop:
		while (handledCPCount < inputLength) {

			// All non-basic code points < n have been handled already. Find the next
			// larger one:
			for (m = maxInt, j = 0; j < inputLength; ++j) {
				currentValue = input[j];
				if (currentValue >= n && currentValue < m) {
					m = currentValue;
				}
			}

			// Increase `delta` enough to advance the decoder's <n,i> state to <m,0>,
			// but guard against overflow
			handledCPCountPlusOne = handledCPCount + 1;
			if (m - n > floor((maxInt - delta) / handledCPCountPlusOne)) {
				error('overflow');
			}

			delta += (m - n) * handledCPCountPlusOne;
			n = m;

			for (j = 0; j < inputLength; ++j) {
				currentValue = input[j];

				if (currentValue < n && ++delta > maxInt) {
					error('overflow');
				}

				if (currentValue == n) {
					// Represent delta as a generalized variable-length integer
					for (q = delta, k = base; /* no condition */; k += base) {
						t = k <= bias ? tMin : (k >= bias + tMax ? tMax : k - bias);
						if (q < t) {
							break;
						}
						qMinusT = q - t;
						baseMinusT = base - t;
						output.push(
							stringFromCharCode(digitToBasic(t + qMinusT % baseMinusT, 0))
						);
						q = floor(qMinusT / baseMinusT);
					}

					output.push(stringFromCharCode(digitToBasic(q, 0)));
					bias = adapt(delta, handledCPCountPlusOne, handledCPCount == basicLength);
					delta = 0;
					++handledCPCount;
				}
			}

			++delta;
			++n;

		}
		return output.join('');
	}
Converts a string of Unicode symbols to a Punycode string of ASCII-only
symbols.
@memberOf punycode
@param {String} input The string of Unicode symbols.
@returns {String} The resulting Punycode string of ASCII-only symbols.