The Authentic Orthography
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Why prōtesilaos.com is the correct form
Πρωτεσίλαος
The name in its original Greek form. A name that carries the full phonetic weight of its source tradition.
PROTESILAUS
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.
Prōtesilaos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
prōtesilaos.com → xn--prtesilaos-r3b.com
The non-ASCII characters in Prōtesilaos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Prōtesilaos.
How protesilaus becomes Prōtesilaos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | p | → | P | Same | Same |
| 02 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 03 | o | → | ō | Length | Macron: long omega |
| 04 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 05 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 06 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 07 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 08 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 09 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 10 | u | → | o | Same | Omicron |
| 11 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
Why Prōtesilaos is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Greek original Πρωτεσίλαος contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Prōtesilaos behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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