The Authentic Orthography
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Why tezcatlipōca.com is the correct form
Tezcatlipōca
The name in its original Nahuatl form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
TEZCATLIPOCA
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.
Tezcatlipōca
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
tezcatlipōca.com → xn--tezcatlipca-t9b.com
The non-ASCII characters in Tezcatlipōca are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Tezcatlipōca.
How tezcatlipoca becomes Tezcatlipōca
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Same |
| 02 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 03 | z | → | z | Same | Same |
| 04 | c | → | c | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 06 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 07 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 08 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 09 | p | → | p | Same | Same |
| 10 | o | → | ō | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 11 | c | → | c | Same | Same |
| 12 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Tezcatlipōca is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Nahuatl original Tezcatlipōca 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 Tezcatlipōca behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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