The Authentic Orthography
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Why radagast.com is the correct form
Radagast
The name in its original Slavic form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
RADAGAST
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.
Radagast
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
radagast.com → radagast.com
The non-ASCII characters in Radagast are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Radagast.
How radagast becomes Radagast
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | r | → | R | Same | Same |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 05 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 07 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 08 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
Why Radagast is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Slavic original Radagast 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 Radagast behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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