The Authentic Orthography
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Why kassándra.com is the correct form
Κασσάνδρα
The name in its original Greek form. Κασσάνδρα carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
CASSANDRA
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.
Kassándra
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
kassándra.com → xn--kassndra-cza.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kassándra are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kassándra.
How cassandra becomes Kassándra
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | c | → | K | Special | Special character |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | a same |
| 03 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
| 04 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
| 05 | a | → | á | Stress | Acute on a |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | n same |
| 07 | d | → | d | Same | d same |
| 08 | r | → | r | Same | r same |
| 09 | a | → | a | Same | a same |
Why Kassándra is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Κασσάνδρα 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 Kassándra behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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