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Hi Everyone, I recently decided to start an experimental Gemlog written in Korean. I found, however, that some clients do not like having Asian text in the path of the URL---either as the name of a folder or a file. What is the general consensus about non-latin characters in URLs? The Gemini Spec doesn't say anything that would lead me to believe I shouldn't name my files and folders in Korean. Also, for most clients it is apparently a non-issue. For an example, you can point your client to gemini://namu.blue/??/ Some clients will crash, some will not attempt to load the page, and some will just return a Permanent Failure. Some will even crash attempting to parse the link to that page on gemini://namu.blue/. Anyway, I just wanted to see what everyone thinks about the best practice in this situation. Thanks! ~mieum gemini://rawtext.club/~mieum/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2742852/unicode-characters-in-urls Gemini uses URLs. So ? ??, but, percent encoded. "mieum" <mieum at tilde.team> writes: > Hi Everyone, > > I recently decided to start an experimental Gemlog written in Korean. I > found, however, that some clients do not like having Asian text in the > path of the URL---either as the name of a folder or a file. > > What is the general consensus about non-latin characters in URLs? The > Gemini Spec doesn't say anything that would lead me to believe I > shouldn't name my files and folders in Korean. Also, for most clients it > is apparently a non-issue. > > For an example, you can point your client to gemini://namu.blue/??/ > > Some clients will crash, some will not attempt to load the page, and > some will just return a Permanent Failure. Some will even crash > attempting to parse the link to that page on gemini://namu.blue/. > > Anyway, I just wanted to see what everyone thinks about the best > practice in this situation. > > Thanks! > ~mieum > > gemini://rawtext.club/~mieum/
It was thus said that the Great mieum once stated:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I recently decided to start an experimental Gemlog written in Korean. I
> found, however, that some clients do not like having Asian text in the
> path of the URL---either as the name of a folder or a file.
>
> What is the general consensus about non-latin characters in URLs?
The actual specification for URLs is RFC-3986, and that lists the valid
characters for the path portion of a URL, which are:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
0123456789
-._~
!{body}amp;'()*+,;=:@
ANY OTHER CHARACTER has to be percent-encoded.
> For an example, you can point your client to gemini://namu.blue/??/
It should be:
gemini://namu.blue/%EC%8C%8D%EB%A1%9D/
The server will then have to decode the percent-encoded data to get the
proper file to use.
> Anyway, I just wanted to see what everyone thinks about the best
> practice in this situation.
Ensure you are using UTF-8 on the server, and percent-encode the path when
generating the URL.
-spc
Thank you, Sandra! I was unaware of this! Sorry to ask such a basic question here! ~mieum
Thanks Sean, I appreciate your thorough response! I'll look into properly encoding everything :)
Now, I wouldn't be opposed to Gemini instead using iris with utf8mb4 supported both RTL and LTR. I rail against change on here but that would be a welcome change. There are some severe security risks that come with such a change so it's not undertaken lightly. As discussed earlier with the NN/.. issue. Sandra Snan <sandra.snan at idiomdrottning.org> writes: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2742852/unicode-characters-in-urls > Gemini uses URLs. > > So ? ??, but, percent encoded. > > "mieum" <mieum at tilde.team> writes: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I recently decided to start an experimental Gemlog written in Korean. I >> found, however, that some clients do not like having Asian text in the >> path of the URL---either as the name of a folder or a file. >> >> What is the general consensus about non-latin characters in URLs? The >> Gemini Spec doesn't say anything that would lead me to believe I >> shouldn't name my files and folders in Korean. Also, for most clients it >> is apparently a non-issue. >> >> For an example, you can point your client to gemini://namu.blue/??/ >> >> Some clients will crash, some will not attempt to load the page, and >> some will just return a Permanent Failure. Some will even crash >> attempting to parse the link to that page on gemini://namu.blue/. >> >> Anyway, I just wanted to see what everyone thinks about the best >> practice in this situation. >> >> Thanks! >> ~mieum >> >> gemini://rawtext.club/~mieum/
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