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

[bie]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 03:10:58AM +0100, Petite Abeille wrote:
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> > On Dec 23, 2020, at 02:37, bie <bie at 202x.moe> wrote:
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> >  (from someone who so far has been serving
> > mostly non-ascii content over gemini with no real problems or complaints)
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> Got to say, I don't get it. 
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> You have a perfectly functional gemini server running on openbsd, handcrafted in C, serving unicode content without a fuss, handling URIs, and the whole shebang, but suddenly IRIs push you over the brink?!
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> This doesn't add up.

Why doesn't it add up?

My server doesn't have to know anything about unicode to serve a text
file, just like it doesn't have to be able to parse JPEGs to serve
images. IRIs means it *does* have to know something about unicode, which
ucs characters are valid IRI characters, that the "private" UCS are only
valid in the query part etc etc.

bie