Meaning of homoglyphic | Babel Free

Definitions

Being, involving, or using the same or similar glyph(s), that is, homoglyph(s), for different characters (as for example in fonts where the letter O and the digit 0, or the letter I and the digit 1, are visually indistinguishable or nearly so).

not-comparable

Examples

“Most of these errors apparently result from homoglyphic confusion, but it is hard to tell which mistakes are due to the scribes and which are due to the publishers' conservative or oblivious editing.”

“[...] homoglyphic attacks, such as creating a domain name that looks like oreilly.com but uses a Cyrillic О; see Chapter 12 for more information on this.”

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