IDNs
IDNs
Posted Mar 20, 2022 5:29 UTC (Sun) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)Parent article: Fedora considers curl-minimal
Instead of having tools automatically support IDNs, with the exception of GUI tools that directly take typed user input (and even there, different solutions might be better), I’d rather have a CLI tool to punyencode things which you can then call like: curl http://$(punyencode "$domain")/path/file
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