The Authentic Orthography
Prince of Troy, Paris · Defender of men
Why aléxandros.com is the correct form
Ἀλέξανδρος
The name in its original Greek form. A name that carries the full phonetic weight of its source tradition.
ALEXANDROS
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.
Aléxandros
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
aléxandros.com → xn--alxandros-c4a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Aléxandros are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Aléxandros.
How alexandros becomes Aléxandros
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | Same |
| 02 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 03 | e | → | é | Stress | Acute on epsilon |
| 04 | x | → | x | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 07 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 08 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 09 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
| 10 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
Why Aléxandros is classified as Tier-1 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Ἀλέξανδρος contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Aléxandros behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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