The Authentic Orthography
Games, Zeus, Sanctuary · Of Olympus
Why olympía.com is the correct form
Ὀλυμπία
The name in its original Greek form. Ὀλυμπία carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
OLYMPIA
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.
Olympía
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
olympía.com → xn--olympa-7va.com
The non-ASCII characters in Olympía are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Olympía.
How olympia becomes Olympía
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | o | → | O | Same | O uppercase |
| 02 | l | → | l | Same | l same |
| 03 | y | → | y | Same | y same |
| 04 | m | → | m | Same | m same |
| 05 | p | → | p | Same | p same |
| 06 | i | → | í | Stress | Acute on i |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | a same |
Why Olympía is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Ὀλυμπία 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 Olympía behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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