homoglyph

plural homoglyphs

1. computingA 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.

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   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

   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