The Authentic Orthography
King, Eternal Thirst and Hunger · To endure, to bear
Why tántalos.com is the correct form
Τάνταλος
The name in its original Greek form. A name that carries the full phonetic weight of its source tradition.
TANTALUS
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.
Tántalos
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
tántalos.com → xn--tntalos-hwa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Tántalos are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Tántalos.
How tantalus becomes Tántalos
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Same |
| 02 | a | → | á | Stress | Acute on alpha |
| 03 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 04 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 06 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 07 | u | → | o | Same | Omicron |
| 08 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
Why Tántalos is classified as Tier-1 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Τάνταλος 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 Tántalos behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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