I think that's what domains get translated into when you're using a foreign language for the URL. It's to prevent IDN homograph attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack which basically tries to impersonate a legitimate URL with a fake unicode character.

I've always thought that there must be a better solution than to force all of the non-English speaking world to conform to our views though.

Chrome somehow solves it. If you visit the actual URL, it's allestörungen.de, which is quite nice. I wonder what the protocol is of when to decode the URL.

Eh, what's the problem really?

A) we who regularly use those characters already know how it looks when websites don't encode stuff properly

B) the crowd on HN most likely know what it means anyways, and can ignore it without loosing their mind

Isn't it best this way for security? Eg. to prevent something that looks like apple.com but is actually some weird unicode alternative

I hate when I see people who hate other culture and want everyone to conform to globalization, like you.