The Authentic Orthography
Winds, Keeper · Changeable, nimble
Why aíolos.com is the correct form
Αἴολος
The name in its original Greek form. Αἴολος carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
AEOLUS
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Aíolos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
aíolos.com → xn--aolos-zsa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Aíolos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Aíolos.
How aeolus becomes Aíolos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | A uppercase |
| 02 | e | → | í | Special | Special character |
| 03 | o | → | o | Same | o same |
| 04 | l | → | l | Same | l same |
| 05 | u | → | o | Special | Special character |
| 06 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
Why Aíolos is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Αἴολος contains only stress (acute accent). This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name. The Unicode restoration preserves what can be preserved — honoring the single feature that distinguishes it from plain ASCII.
See how Aíolos behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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