What is the alternative? ASCII isn't it because there isn't only English out there. All the different encodings we had before weren't it either.

Having only ASCII in urls is incredible US centric. Yes it brings problems, yes they are solvable. It takes work to not have US and it's writing system to be the center of everything.

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cowlevel 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

A single language per file

	▲	duskwuff 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		... might sound like a reasonable solution until you start trying to write about languages. It is unreasonable for a sentence like "In Japanese, the word for 'hello' is こんにちは; in Korean, it's 안녕하세요." to be unrepresentable.