Three possible uses for IRIs

[Dmitry Bogatov]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 12:46:47PM +0100, William Orr wrote:

> In general, browsers will render the domain in the URI bar if all of
> the characters in the each section belong to the same script. As an
> example, https://аpple.com will not render correctly in Firefox in the
> URI bar, but https://аррле.com/ will render correctly (both domains do
> not exist if you want to check).

A lot of extra complexity for very little value.

FWIW, first url you showed looks absolutely the same as legit
"https://apple.com" I typed manually in my vim in TERM=linux.

I came to gemini because for web I, inhabitant of /dev/tty1, is
third-class citizen. Please, don't bring this to Gemini. If "curl
gemini://foo.example/" is not good enough, than your feature is too
complicated.

My native language is Russian (which is not even latin-based), and
goverment website has URL of "https://gosuslugi.ru", and everything
works fine. If you ask me, IRI is a huge mistake.