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Re: List of similar Unicode glyphs ?

To: "Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: List of similar Unicode glyphs ?
From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:19:13 +0000
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> Is there a list of confusable Unicode glyphs somewhere?

The Unicode standard contains cross-references to characters
with similar glyphs, and the full database is in

  http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt

For example:

00B5	MICRO SIGN
	# 03BC greek small letter mu

Look for lines that start with # or x.

The Linux tool gucharmap allows you to browse these as well.

Depending on your exaxt application needs, these lists may need some
tweaking.

Markus

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