IDN with Gemini?

[colecmac at protonmail.com]

> I don't know what is the process for proposing and discussing changes
> in Gemini specification (or to follow the points in discussion).

It's basically what we're doing. At some point Solderpunk will chime in
hopefully, and make a permanent change.

> In the mean time, I've summarized the discussion here:
>
> gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/gemini/idn.gmi

Thanks for this. I forgot about certificates. I feel like for the most
compatibility, clients should support both the punycoded and Unicode
version of the domain in certs. Anyone disagree?

As for Unicode normalization, I feel like that's complex, annoying, and
hopefully out-of-scope. There should be one Unicode string for each domain
only, and I really don't want to have to deal with anything else.


Cheers
makeworld