homoglyph

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WOTD – 21 February 2012
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Etymology

First attested in 1938; formed as homo- (“same”) +‎ glyph after homograph.

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homoglyph (plural homoglyphs)

  1. (linguistics, computing) 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.
    • 1938, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions of Petén‎, volume IV, page 43:
      The E variant of the moon sign may perhaps be regarded as a homoglyph.
    • 1990, NIAS Report‎, page 34:
      The lower case “L”, Upper case “i”, and Numeral “One” are homoglyphs.
    • 2007, Shinji Ido, Bukharan Tajik, page page 4:
      All the other consonant phonemes are transcribed into the homoglyphs of their IPA representations.
    • 2009, Theodore Rosendorf, The Typographic Desk Reference‎, page 50:
      The pair shown is the letter f and the guilder currency sign [ƒ]. Homoglyphs can also occur within the same writing system.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:homoglyph.

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