homoglyph
Sign in to savethumb|The homoglyphs and overlaid. In the image, both characters are set in Helvetica LT Std Roman.|class=skin-invert-image In orthography and typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more graphemes, characters, or glyphs with shapes that appear identical or very similar but may have differing meaning. The designation is also applied to sequences of characters sharing these properties.
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9 sectionsContents
- Related terms
- Trema for umlaut and diaeresis
- 0 and O; 1, l and I
- Multi-letter homoglyphs
- Canonicalization
- Unicode homoglyphs
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|The homoglyphs and overlaid. In the image, both characters are set in Helvetica LT Std Roman.|class=skin-invert-image In orthography and typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more graphemes, characters, or glyphs with shapes that appear identical or very similar but may have differing meaning. The designation is also applied to sequences of characters sharing these properties.
In 2008, the Unicode Consortium published its Technical Report #36 on a range of issues deriving from the visual similarity of characters both in single scripts, and similarities between characters in different scripts.