IDN with Gemini?

[Petite Abeille]

> On Dec 7, 2020, at 14:09, bie <bie at 202x.moe> wrote:
> 
> That said, I don't think there's anything wrong with a friendly client
> showing percent-decoded unicode representations of a path or
> punycode-decoded representations of an international domain name in the
> address bar or anywhere else in the interface.
> 
> In the same vein, if a server wants to be extra friendly to gmi file
> authors, it can, like I suggested earlier, allow users to name and link
> to files in unicode, but percent-encode everything before sending it to
> over the wire.

This.

It's the job of the internationally minded client and server to do the proper legwork for the end user so the over-the-wire format is correct.

No need to change anything in the protocol itself, but rather an opportunity for clients and servers to distinguish themselves.

Alternatively: 

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