IDN with Gemini?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 09:24:08AM +0100,
 Côme Chilliet <come at chilliet.eu> wrote 
 a message of 8 lines which said:

> It's 2020, can we please be allowed to use french in our links?

And it is even more important for people who use scripts like arabic,
chinese, devanageri, etc.

> what's the rationnal in limiting to ascii?

Well, properly handling IRI require to change the specification, and
also to change software. One of the points of Gemini being to be
simple to implement, this certainly requires consideration. However, it
is an issue similar to the TLS one: TLS is big and complicated
(certainly even more than Unicode) and yet Gemini *requires* it. After
all, it will typically be handled by a library, not by the guy or gal
who writes yet another Gemini server. Same thing for Unicode.