IDN with Gemini?

[Gary Johnson]

As yet another data point, Java's standard library contains a class
(java.net.URI) that correctly parses URIs with non-ASCII characters in
their paths and query params, but it chokes when they are in the domain
name.

Therefore, URIs like this should work fine with Space Age:

gemini://gemeaux.bortzmeyer.org:8965/café?fooéy=baréy

But this is a non-starter:

gemini://gémeaux.bortzmeyer.org:8965/café?fooéy=baréy

It looks like there is an incomplete and poorly documented
implementation of RFC 3987 (IRI) and RFC 3986 (URI) in Apache Jena
(https://jena.apache.org/documentation/notes/iri.html), but it's a
rather heavyweight addition to an otherwise very concise Gemini server.

I'll keep an eye on this thread to see what the community ultimately
decides to do about IRI/IDN.

Happy hacking,
  Gary

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