homoglyphic

homoglyphic

English

Etymology

homo- +‎ glyphic

Adjective

homoglyphic (not comparable)

1. Being, involving, or using the same (visually indistinguishable) glyph(s).
   • 2016, Andrea Acri, Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia (→ISBN), page 40:

     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.

   • 2017, Michael Collins, Network Security Through Data Analysis: From Data to Action ("O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN), page 182:

     [...] homoglyphic attacks, such as creating a domain name that looks like oreilly.com but uses a Cyrillic O; see Chapter 12 for more information on this.