The Authentic Orthography
North Wind · The devouring one
Why boreás.com is the correct form
Βορέας
The name in its original Greek form. Βορέας carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
BOREAS
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.
Boreás
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
boreás.com → xn--bores-0qa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Boreás are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Boreás.
How boreas becomes Boreás
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | b | → | B | Same | B uppercase |
| 02 | o | → | o | Same | o same |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | r same |
| 04 | e | → | e | Same | e same |
| 05 | a | → | á | Stress | Acute on a |
| 06 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
Why Boreás is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Βορέας 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 Boreás behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
boreas
→
Boreás