The Authentic Orthography
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Why chicōmecōātl.com is the correct form
Chicōmecōātl
The name in its original Nahuatl form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
CHICOMECOATL
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.
Chicōmecōātl
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
chicōmecōātl.com → xn--chicmectl-ccb64fda.com
The non-ASCII characters in Chicōmecōātl are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Chicōmecōātl.
How chicomecoatl becomes Chicōmecōātl
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | c | → | C | Same | Same |
| 02 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 03 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 04 | c | → | c | Same | Same |
| 05 | o | → | ō | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 06 | m | → | m | Same | Same |
| 07 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 08 | c | → | c | Same | Same |
| 09 | o | → | ō | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 10 | a | → | ā | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 11 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 12 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
Why Chicōmecōātl is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Nahuatl original Chicōmecōātl 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 Chicōmecōātl behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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