On Tuesday, February 22, 2022 10:50:06 PM CET Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> said:
>
> > Yes. But how many domains using idn are there? I worked on idn support
> > in systemd, but when preparing the description of this change I realized
> > that I have _never_ once used an idn domain outside of testing.
> >
> > And note that this is not about user-facing programs like firefox.
> > I assume that there might be _some_ use of idn in firefox. But for
> > command-line tools like curl this seems even less likely.
>
>
> I'm pretty sure use of IDN domains is a regional thing.  I live in the
> US and don't see IDN domains in my normal use.  But dropping support for
> them from a core utility would be bad for those that live in regions
> where IDN domains may be more common.
>
> --
> Chris Adams <linux@cmadams.net>

If this appears to be a real problem, it is easy for us to re-enable IDN
in libcurl-minimal, even in an update of a stable Fedora release.  So I do
not think we need to enable it proactively.