Unfortunately, I'm missing the conference. (Had to go to the hospital in the middle of the night.)

Thanks for the background information! I love the details and backstories about how people came up with clever solutions with limited technology. Reminds me of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitu...

Ideally, no user would ever see the internal punycode, which is pretty impenetrable. Nor the internal bytes of utf8.

Let’s take a quick look at LOTR from Sauron’s perspective, where it resembles nothing so much as a counter-espionage spy thriller.