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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