Asian Text in URLs

mieum mieum at tilde.team
Sat Oct 3 08:26:01 BST 2020


Hi Everyone,

I recently decided to start an experimental Gemlog written in Korean. I
found, however, that some clients do not like having Asian text in the
path of the URL---either as the name of a folder or a file.

What is the general consensus about non-latin characters in URLs? The
Gemini Spec doesn't say anything that would lead me to believe I
shouldn't name my files and folders in Korean. Also, for most clients it
is apparently a non-issue. 

For an example, you can point your client to gemini://namu.blue/쌍록/

Some clients will crash, some will not attempt to load the page, and
some will just return a Permanent Failure. Some will even crash 
attempting to parse the link to that page on gemini://namu.blue/. 

Anyway, I just wanted to see what everyone thinks about the best 
practice in this situation. 

Thanks!
~mieum

gemini://rawtext.club/~mieum/


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