Punycode - an Overview by a Soylentil

An Anonymous Coward writes:

When this internet's phone book (DNS) was initially created, it only allowed for a limited set of ASCII characters to be used in host (www) and domain (soylentnews.org) names. With the growth of the internet and its reach to non-English speaking countries however, the need for international domain names that could contain Unicode characters - like a, or even - arose

So what to do? Answer: https://.com/never-click-on-a-link-that-looks-like-that/

Bonus: the article uses https://soylentnews.org/ as their example when describing how DNS works

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