The Authentic Orthography
Poet, Warrior, Son of Finn · Little fawn
Why oisín.com is the correct form
Oisín
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual celtic names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
OISIN
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.
Oisín
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
oisín.com → xn--oisn-xpa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Oisín are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Oisín.
How oisin becomes Oisín
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | o | → | O | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 03 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 04 | i | → | í | Stress | Stress on i |
| 05 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why Oisín is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Celtic original Oisín 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 Oisín behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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