homoglyph
nounUK /ˈhɒməʊɡlɪf/
Etymology First attested in 1938; formed as homo- (“same”) + glyph after homograph.
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Computing, Engineering, Human sciences, Linguistics, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.
- 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.1938, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions of Petén, volume IV, page 43:
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- The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs.1990, NIAS Report, page 34:
- All the other consonant phonemes are transcribed into the homoglyphs of their IPA representations.2007, Shinji Ido, Bukharan Tajik, page page 4:
- The pair shown is the letter f and the guilder currency sign [ƒ]. Homoglyphs can also occur within the same writing system.2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 50:
- Derived terms
- homoglyphic, homoglyphically, homoglyphy
- Related terms
- homograph, homonym, OCR, optical character recognition, scanno
- Coordinate terms
- allographs