Also checking for info on IDNs, this info on VeriSign's website came up. Back when I was in college I figured it'd be possible to escape Unicode characters for URLs, for example, the way some URLs have %20 to represent a space. There are some sneaky aspects of using Unicode in URLs, though, such as the varieties of spaces, minor kanji variants, and the like. There's a remapping of Unicode characters for use in IDNs. Apparently this IDN format has been submitted as IETF RFCs.
In the end, the domain name system will disappear. Until someone comes up with something better, though, we have to put up with an archaic system.
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