The Authentic Orthography
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Why éthos.com is the correct form
Ἦθος
The name in its original Greek form. Ἦθος carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
ETHOS
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.
Éthos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
éthos.com → xn--thos-9oa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Éthos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Éthos.
How ethos becomes Éthos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | e | → | É | Stress | Acute on e |
| 02 | t | → | t | Same | t same |
| 03 | h | → | h | Same | h same |
| 04 | o | → | o | Same | o same |
| 05 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
Why Éthos is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Ἦθος 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.
See how Éthos behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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