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

[Petite Abeille]

> On Dec 27, 2020, at 01:26, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
> 
> How do you preseve them?  As the encoded "%2F"?  Do you convert the
> encoded values to uppercase?  Lowercase?  Keep them the same?

The hex code themselves? I tend to normalize them to uppercase. Tradition or something. But perhaps we are talking about different things? Or?

>  But you said it yourself, you fall on the pragmatic side.  

Yes. Different pragmatism I guess. Strictly speaking it also depend of the context. In general, failfast systems have better survivability odds. But at time, one would rather extract as much as one can from imperfect data. It depends of the problematic at hand.

> Well, I do have one [1], although I'm not sure how "full-fledged" it is. 

Yes, but this only concerns itself with the content-type header. I mean MIME multipart constructs.

>  Life is too short to follow the WhatWG "standard" [4], so I guess it's a
> "pick your poison" type situtation.

Fair enough.

> Yeah, let's roll our own crypto and addressing scheme!  What can possibly
> go wrong?

Now, that would be crazy :)