The Authentic Orthography
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Why púca.com is the correct form
Púca
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual celtic names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
POOKA
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.
Púca
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
púca.com → xn--pca-8na.com
The non-ASCII characters in Púca are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Púca.
How pooka becomes Púca
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | p | → | P | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | o | → | ú | Special | Special character |
| 03 | o | → | c | Special | Special character |
| 04 | k | → | a | Special | Special character |
| 05 | a | → | Drop | Dropped |
Why Púca is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Celtic original Púca 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 Púca behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
pooka
→
Púca