[spec] IRIs, IDNs, and all that international jazz

[Solderpunk]

On Tue Dec 22, 2020 at 5:54 PM CET, Petite Abeille wrote:

> To summarize:
>
> #1: Make ASCII Great Again. And again.
> #2: Transcribe between 1 & 3
> #3: Take the IRI mantel
>
> Hopefully a fair transliteration of intent.

Yep, that's about right. :)

> Clearly #3 has the most appeal.
>
> But yes, nothing comes for free, and pragmatism may drag us back to #1.

> I don't quite see what #2 is for. Midway compromise?

Option 2. doesn't appeal much to me either, but it seems, from my read
through of most of the ML posts in the three threads you helpfully
linked to, to be quite popular in the community, and it's also
apparently more or less what the web does, so it seemed worth listing.
Having it explicitly spelled out also makes it easy to compare exactly
how much extra work is involved in option 3. compared to this.

Cheers,
Solderpunk