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

[Jason McBrayer]

bie <bie at 202x.moe> writes:

> After thinking about this for a while, the biggest issue for me is
> that this is a breaking change. Breaking in the sense that it breaks
> *every single compliant server we already have*!

I think that's a little dramatic. Looking at my server, I need to make a
change in exactly one place: when mapping IRI paths to file paths, I
can no longer use the url decoding library I was using to decode URI
paths, because it mangles Unicode characters. But since I can now be
sure that only IRI reserved characters are encoded, I can just do a
simple substring substitution. It's also a change that is
backward-compatible with old clients.

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