Unicode vs. the World

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Björn Wärmedal once stated:
> How does a client handle a link like the following:
> => essays/why-spaces-are-%20-in-URLs.gmi
> 
> The assumption here is that the author has not percent encoded
> themselves -- this is the actual filename, %20 and all.

  And speaking of this, test #31 of the Gemini Client Torture Test [1] has
this exact case---the link contains characters that should be encoded but
aren't.  It's been interesting to see which clients get an error, and which
ones encode the bad characters.  And for this test, there is no right
answer---it's there to inform implementors that you'll encounter wrong stuff
all the time, and you better be prepared to do *something* [2].

  -spc

[1]	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/torture/0031

[2]	Not withstanding the advice I presented in my previous reply to
	this.  Sometimes, crashing *is* a valid response to some unknown
	state, but it really depends upon the context of the program [3].

[3]	I can expand on this if anyone cares.