Query Strings

[solderpunk]

Hmm.  Perhaps we have a little bit of wiggle room, but my reading of RFC
3986 section 2.2 leads me to believe that, if nothing else, the
characters:

":", "/", "?", "#", "[", "]", and "@"

are reserved characters in the generic URI scheme (which I presume means
they are also reserved in all protocol-specific schemes), so if those
appear in a client's response to a query prompt, they *need* to be
encoded some how - and for obvious reasons!

You're right, however, that exactly how they are encoded is up to us.
That's a surprise to me!  So the spec will have to address this, but
IMHO it's barely even up for discussion how to proceed here - we do it
how HTTP does it so we can leverage the pre-existing libraries in every
programming language under the sun, in keeping with the idea that Gemini
machinery should be easily assembled from existing parts as much as
possible.

Cheers,
Solderpunk