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homoglyph

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Definition

A character that looks like a different one — like a Cyrillic 'a' standing in for a Latin 'a'.

Visually similar Unicode characters from different scripts, used in attacks to spoof identifiers; defended against in evidence-carrying parsers via confusable detection.

Also called: homoglyphs, Unicode confusable

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    Treating Hallucinations as Exploits: A Gate-Based Architecture for Agent Safety