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> Punycode is of questionable use anyway Lots of people might want to register their name, or the name of their city, etc. These all sound like valid use cases
by WhyNotHugo 3y ago
> Punycode is of questionable use anyway
Lots of people might want to register their name, or the name of their city, etc. These all sound like valid use cases. You could say that anything beyond ascii is of questionable use, but non-English natives will always digress.
- noirscape 3y agoI know these usecases. In practice, people will still just romanize their name or the name of their city to the Latin alphabet anyway. The reality is that Unicode is great for communication in say, text messages but terrible for identifiers. People in non-latin countries know this; there's a reason that there's only six countries (from what I can tell) that went with punycode TLDs while there are many more countries with unique alphabets and most of those punycode TLDs see very limited use to begin with. (The most popular being the one used by the Russian Federation, which is also the only entity to forbid using non-cyrillic characters in it's domain names).
- yorwba 3y agoThere's quite a lot more than just six countries with punycode country-code TLDs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#Internationalized_ccTLDs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#...
- Too 3y agoHumans survived with [0-9] as the main identifier for their phone line for 100 years. ASCII is actually a great improvement in that regards. Unicode just introduces too much ambiguity to be used in security critical context as in a hostname.