@ErikUden @alice @markiplier It’s not really a matter of Mastodon, I don’t think (?). It’s more that punycode support isn’t broadly/equally supported so far (I’m reasonably sure it’ll get there eventually, but it’s not exactly high on the list of priorities, I’d imagine) but atm a number of platforms and browsers either don’t support it or don’t really implement it in a user-friendly way (displaying it in emoji in the address-bar, accepting emojis in the URL, blah blah..). Likewise you can’t register them to most domain extensions (it’s only CCTLDs and even then only 10 or 12 IIRC). It took some time for Unicode to get wide-spread adoption and that was to cover “real” languages. FWIW, Firefox will display URLs with emoji-inclusive domains. 🤷🏽👍😀

@markiplier everything you touch turns into a Firefish server. That's so awesome.