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

[Omar Polo]

Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> writes:

>> On Dec 23, 2020, at 03:54, bie <bie at 202x.moe> wrote:
>> 
>> doesn't have to be able to parse JPEGs to serve images.
>
> ( wat? )
>
> Presently text/gemini mandates 3 different encoding in a link:
>
> => gemini://punicode/url-encoded utf8
>
> 3 different encodings in one line.
>
> 3 in 1.
>
> Moving to IRI clean this up to 1 encoding, utf8.
>
> 1 in 1.

Not really.  I don't know basically anything about punycode so I can't
comment on that, but IRI allows percent encoding too.