The Authentic Orthography

Δελφοί Delphí

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Tier-2 Accent-Preserving delphí.com
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The Authentic Name

Why delphí.com is the correct form

Greek

Δελφοί

The name in its original Greek form. Δελφοί carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.

ASCII Constraint

DELPHI

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.

Unicode Restoration

Delphí

The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.

Punycode Encoding
delphí.com → xn--delph-3sa.com

The non-ASCII characters in Delphí are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Delphí.

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Character Breakdown

How delphi becomes Delphí

Step ASCII Unicode Type Scholarly Note
01 d D Same D uppercase
02 e e Same e same
03 l l Same l same
04 p p Same p same
05 h h Same h same
06 i í Stress Acute on i
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Tier Classification

Why Delphí is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving

The Greek original Δελφοί 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.

Stress
Preserved
Acute or circumflex accent marks the pitch stress of the original.
Length
Not present in this restoration.
Dual Variant
Only one valid Unicode restoration exists for this name.

Experience the Name

See how Delphí behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.

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