The Authentic Orthography
Water Nymph, Drowned Maiden · Of Rus
Why rusálka.com is the correct form
Rusálka
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual slavic names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
RUSALKA
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.
Rusálka
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
rusálka.com → xn--ruslka-rta.com
The non-ASCII characters in Rusálka are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Rusálka.
How rusalka becomes Rusálka
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | r | → | R | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 03 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | á | Stress | Stress on a |
| 05 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 06 | k | → | k | Same | Same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Rusálka is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Slavic original Rusálka 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 Rusálka behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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