The Authentic Orthography
Preservation, Protection, Universe · All-pervading (from विष्णु)
Why viṣṇu.com is the correct form
Viṣṇu
The name in its original Sanskrit form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
VISHNU
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.
Viṣṇu
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
viṣṇu.com → xn--viu-j5ytg.com
The non-ASCII characters in Viṣṇu are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Viṣṇu.
How vishnu becomes Viṣṇu
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | v | → | V | Same | Same |
| 02 | i | → | i | Same | Short /i/ |
| 03 | s | → | ṣ | Special | S-dot-under: retroflex /ʂ/ |
| 04 | h | → | Drop | Dropped: digraph simplified | |
| 05 | n | → | ṇ | Special | N-dot-under: retroflex /ɳ/ |
| 06 | u | → | u | Same | Short /u/ |
Why Viṣṇu is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Sanskrit original Viṣṇu contains only no distinctive phonetic features. 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 Viṣṇu behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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