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[Davide Del Vento]

>> http://➡.ws/zooko
>
> The Unicode arrow is cool, however. I'm going to need a domain name like
> that.

Yes, it's cool-looking, but... how in the heck do you type it? How can
you be sure that you used the correct arrow among the 112 ones
wikipedia knows about?  Yes some arrows are ruled out because they are
pointing to the top, bottom, left, or diagonal, but still several
"right arrows" remain to choose from. Or how do you know that's
actually an arrow and not a Chinese character that looks to us like an
arrow, but it's not? (this latter problem is particularly serious for
slashes)

As you might imagine from my questions above, I hate unicode in URLs,
for several reasons. One of them is syntax spoofing (see
http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/#Syntax_Spoofing ) and another is
convenience: sometimes I still visit Italian websites, but I prefer
very much US keyboard layout. I just stopped visiting Italian websites
that use Unicode characters in the URL, because typing them is
inconvenient (to say the least).

I really hoped to not have to deal with Unicode in URLs (or at least
in domain names) in my life, but clearly this has happened :-(

Bye,
;Dav