Some reading on IRIs and IDNs

[Petite Abeille]

> On Dec 10, 2020, at 16:54, cage <cage-dev at twistfold.it> wrote:
> 
> Internationalized  hostname  has  advantages  but  how  this  adding
> complexity impact software author? Is this complexity needed?

Ah, yes, le charme discret du régionalisme.

It all boils down to the unmeasurable joy of Unicode ☻

> I have no answer, just would want to express some of my concerns.

Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle had about 3 lines in Terry Gilliam's' Brazil:

• Well, that's a pipe of a different color.
• Listen, this whole system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a twenty-seven B stroke six... bloody paperwork.
• Listen, kid, we're all in it together.

This sums it up in terms of retrofitting Unicode into ASCII:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfoIyx8KfU

Perhaps Unicode should be abandoned altogether, and we all move back to to the original simplicity of ASCII. 

From retro to retrograde. Sigh. 

It's all about the plumbing.