The Authentic Orthography
King, Bound to Burning Wheel · Strong
Why ixīōn.com is the correct form
Ἰξίων
The name in its original Greek form. A name that carries the full phonetic weight of its source tradition.
IXION
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.
Ixīōn
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
ixīōn.com → xn--ixn-vta4o.com
The non-ASCII characters in Ixīōn are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Ixīōn.
How ixion becomes Ixīōn
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | i | → | I | Same | Same |
| 02 | x | → | x | Same | Same |
| 03 | i | → | í | Stress | Acute on iota |
| 04 | o | → | ō | Length | Macron: long omega |
| 05 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why Ixīōn is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Greek original Ἰξίων contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Ixīōn behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
ixion
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