Three possible uses for IRIs

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 09:37:28PM -0500,
 John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote 
 a message of 117 lines which said:

> I think there are three possible places where IRIs could possibly appear in
> Gemini:

A fourth one is server configuration. (When you declare the virtual
host, for instance.)

> some best-practice advice about when *nоt* to display an IRI, specifically
> when there are cross-script confusables involved.  For example,
> "gemini://gemini.circumlunar.xn--spce-63d/" should not be displayed as
> "gemini://gemini.circumlunar.spаce", because that would be deceptive, even
> in Gemini: you might be pointed to the Evil Version of the Gemini spec and
> not realize it.

As I said, I regard "homograph attacks" as mostly a tale to discourage
people to use Unicode. They are not a real-world problem.