Just discovered there's a spartan:// protocol inspired by Gemini as well. But it's us-ascii only. Wonder why they chose to regress to an obsolete encoding?
7 months ago 路 馃憤 bimzhob
Unicode was a mistake. Just look at the implications of the CJK block. 路 7 months ago
Aha, I think I understand. Thanks. 路 7 months ago
To allow it to be used on old coputers ? 路 7 months ago
https://gitlab.com/gemini-specification/protocol/-/issues/1 路 7 months ago
Only the request & status lines need to be ASCII, the response body can be any encoding and text/gemini is utf-8 just like gemini. But if your URL has unicode characters in it, they need to be escaped or punycoded when you make a spartan request. This is still undefined in gemini btw, see the URI vs IRI debate. 路 7 months ago