The Authentic Orthography

二郎 Èrláng

War, Justice, Nephew of Jade Emperor · Second son

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

Why èrláng.com is the correct form

Chinese characters

二郎

The name in its original Chinese characters form. 二郎 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.

ASCII Constraint

ERLANG

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

Èrláng

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
èrláng.com → xn--rlng-6na3b.com

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

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Character Breakdown

How erlang becomes Èrláng

Step ASCII Unicode Type Scholarly Note
01 e È Stress Stress on e
02 r r Same Same
03 l l Same Same
04 a á Stress Stress on a
05 n n Same Same
06 g g Same Same
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Tier Classification

Why Èrláng is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving

The Ancient original 二郎 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 Èrláng behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.

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