Meaning of homoglyph | Babel Free

Definitions

A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character encoding terms, a character with an identical or near-identical glyph, or the glyph itself.

Equivalents

Examples

“The homoglyphs I (uppercase i) and l (lowercase L) confused many who typed in the URL.”

“The E variant of the moon sign⟳ may perhaps be regarded as a homoglyph.”

“The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs.”

“All the other consonant phonemes are transcribed into the homoglyphs of their IPA representations.”

“The pair shown is the letter f and the guilder currency sign⟳ [ƒ]. Homoglyphs can also occur⟳ within the same writing system.”

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