The Authentic Orthography
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Why andromáchē.com is the correct form
Ἀνδρομάχη
The name in its original Greek form. Ἀνδρομάχη carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
ANDROMACHE
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.
Andromáchē
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
andromáchē.com → xn--andromch-eza61c.com
The non-ASCII characters in Andromáchē are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Andromáchē.
How andromache becomes Andromáchē
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | A uppercase |
| 02 | n | → | n | Same | n same |
| 03 | d | → | d | Same | d same |
| 04 | r | → | r | Same | r same |
| 05 | o | → | o | Same | o same |
| 06 | m | → | m | Same | m same |
| 07 | a | → | á | Stress | Acute on a |
| 08 | c | → | c | Same | c same |
| 09 | h | → | h | Same | h same |
| 10 | e | → | ē | Length | Macron: long vowel |
Why Andromáchē is classified as Tier-1 Full
The Greek original Ἀνδρομάχη 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 Full name.
See how Andromáchē behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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