The Authentic Orthography
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Why kósmos.com is the correct form
Κόσμος
The name in its original Greek form. Κόσμος carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
KOSMOS
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.
Kósmos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
kósmos.com → xn--ksmos-0ta.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kósmos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kósmos.
How kosmos becomes Kósmos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | k | → | K | Same | K uppercase |
| 02 | o | → | ó | Stress | Acute on o |
| 03 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
| 04 | m | → | m | Same | m same |
| 05 | o | → | o | Same | o same |
| 06 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
Why Kósmos is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Κόσμος 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 Kósmos behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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