The Authentic Orthography
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Why hárpyia.com is the correct form
Ἅρπυια
The name in its original Greek form. Ἅρπυια carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
HARPYIA
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.
Hárpyia
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
hárpyia.com → xn--hrpyia-pta.com
The non-ASCII characters in Hárpyia are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Hárpyia.
How harpyia becomes Hárpyia
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | h | → | H | Same | H uppercase |
| 02 | a | → | á | Stress | Acute on a |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | r same |
| 04 | p | → | p | Same | p same |
| 05 | y | → | y | Same | y same |
| 06 | i | → | i | Same | i same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | a same |
Why Hárpyia is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Ἅρπυια 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 Hárpyia behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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