The Authentic Orthography
Trickery, Crossroads, Messenger · Divine trickster
Why ẹṣu.com is the correct form
Ẹṣu
The name in its original Yoruba form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
ESHU
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.
Ẹṣu
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
ẹṣu.com → xn--u-hrm7o.com
The non-ASCII characters in Ẹṣu are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Ẹṣu.
How eshu becomes Ẹṣu
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | e | → | Ẹ | Special | E with dot below |
| 02 | s | → | ṣ | Special | S with dot below |
| 03 | h | → | Drop | Not written | |
| 04 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
Why Ẹṣu is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Yoruba original Ẹṣu contains only no distinctive phonetic features. 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 Ẹṣu behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
eshu
→
Ẹṣu