That seems certain to me. I don't know how to get around it though. The long-term benefit of moving beyond plain ASCII for URLs is key to continued growth and s

That seems certain to me. I don't know how to get around it though. The long-term benefit of moving beyond plain ASCII for URLs is key to continued growth and success of the internet. In China for instance, numeric URLs are becoming prominent where English ones are too unfamiliar for many uses. That's a pretty poor state of affairs.