Scholarly reference for Kēpheus
Κηφεύς
The name in its original Greek form. Κηφεύς carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
CEPHEUS
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.
Kēpheus
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
kēpheus.com → xn--kpheus-p3a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kēpheus are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kēpheus. PUNYCODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How cepheus becomes Kēpheus
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | c | → | K | Same | Kappa |
| 02 | e | → | ē | Length | Macron: long eta |
| 03 | p | → | p | Same | Same |
| 04 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 05 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 06 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 07 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
Why Kēpheus is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Greek original Κηφεύς preserves vowel length (macron) in its Unicode restoration. There is only one historically valid spelling with this feature preserved. This is classified as a single-tier Tier-1 Macron-Preserving name.
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