The Authentic Orthography
Courage, Excellence, Virtue · Manliness, courage
Why virtūs.com is the correct form
Virtūs
The original script for this greek name has not yet been added to PUNYCODEX. The form shown is a scholarly transliteration.
VIRTUS
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.
Virtūs
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
virtūs.com → xn--virts-ofb.com
The non-ASCII characters in Virtūs are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Virtūs.
How virtus becomes Virtūs
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | v | → | V | Same | V uppercase |
| 02 | i | → | i | Same | i same |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | r same |
| 04 | t | → | t | Same | t same |
| 05 | u | → | ū | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 06 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
Why Virtūs is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Greek original Virtūs preserves vowel length (macron) in its Unicode restoration. There is only one historically valid spelling with this feature preserved. This is classified as a single-tier Tier-1 Macron-Preserving name.
See how Virtūs behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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