wouldn't normally spell Maori as M-A-A-O-R-I, for instance. But if you were stuck with ASCII text, then that's a shorthand, and everyone knows, well, you wouldn't see double letters like that in Maori normally, so you just, in your head, translate that double letter to that single letter with the line over it. And I think that's basically kind of what libidn does as well. Neither of those two examples are taken from libidn. They're just things that I've encountered as I mess around with languages that I don't know. But the libidn, I mean, it doesn't have to do anything human-friendly. It can be pretty strict, it can stay pretty strictly tied to computing. Like, it doesn't, that's all it's used for, is for the translation of internationalized domain names to something that DNS can understand. And I don't know, maybe we're working on making this translation step unnecessary. I don't know the status of that. I think it would be nice. But I mean, that Unicode conversion, man, boy, it's (52/53)
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