The Authentic Orthography
Blind Seer of Thebes · Sign-bearer
Why teiresías.com is the correct form
Τειρεσίας
The name in its original Greek form. Τειρεσίας carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
TEIRESIAS
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.
Teiresías
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
teiresías.com → xn--teiresas-h2a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Teiresías are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Teiresías.
How teiresias becomes Teiresías
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | T uppercase |
| 02 | e | → | e | Same | e same |
| 03 | i | → | i | Same | i same |
| 04 | r | → | r | Same | r same |
| 05 | e | → | e | Same | e same |
| 06 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
| 07 | i | → | í | Stress | Acute on i |
| 08 | a | → | a | Same | a same |
| 09 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
Why Teiresías is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Greek original Τειρεσίας 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 Teiresías behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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