Asian Text in URLs

[Sandra Snan]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2742852/unicode-characters-in-urls
Gemini uses URLs.

So 예 한글, but, percent encoded.

"mieum" <mieum at tilde.team> writes:

> 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/