Description: A homoglyphs is a symbol that appears to be the same or very similar to another symbol. An example most would be familiar with is the letter O and the number 0. Depending on the font used they may be hard to distinguish from each other. The letters l (lower case L) and I (uppercase i) are another common example. Where it becomes even more interesting are the places in Unicode where very similar characters exist from different languages. Languages that use characters which look similar to the normal Latin alphabet with diacritic accents, letter-like symbols and other useable homoglyphs pop up with great regularity, some seeming to be almost exact duplicates of the same symbol. Cyrillic script is a common example, possessing very close homoglyphs for a, c, e, o, p, x and y. Even the Latin alphabet appears twice in Unicode.
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