confusability

[tedd <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AMC said:

> For the moment I'll call the relation "confusability".  Given any two
> labels (in no particular order), they are either confusable or not, and
> it is possible to compute that boolean value.  The computation might
> enumerate all the labels that could be confused with one of the inputs
> and check whether the other input is among them, or it might be possible
> to be more efficient by using a clever algorithm.  We'll worry about
> that later.

From an earlier post, someone talked about IBM.com vs 1BM.com  -- 
which should have been ibm.com vs 1bm.com, but none the less this 
type of similar-looking-glyph use can be confusing. It can be even 
more confusing if one uses a Greek small letter iota with tonos 
(U03AF) to produce an ibm.com. Is this the type of confusion you are 
talking about?

tedd
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