Homoglyphic

Quick meaning: Homoglyphic is an adjective meaning 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).

Meaning

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).

Example Sentences

[...] 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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include homographic, heterographic, ideophonographical, digammated, digammate, holoalphabetic.

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