Why metztli.com is the correct form
Metztli
The name in its original Nahuatl form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
METZTLI
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.
Metztli
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
metztli.com → metztli.com
The non-ASCII characters in Metztli are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Metztli.
How metztli becomes Metztli
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | m | → | M | Same | Same |
| 02 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 03 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 04 | z | → | z | Same | Same |
| 05 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 06 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 07 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
Why Metztli is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Nahuatl original Metztli 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 Metztli behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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