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Another easy way to get data is to look at the decompositions of "precomposed" characters like "à"; if a character can be decomposed into one or more combining chapters followed by a base character that looks like an English letter, it probably looks like an English letter itself. Nothing beats lots of data for a problem like this.
Characters that are same in certain locales, like æ and ae, or ä and ae, or ä and aa, or MacKinley and McKinley, …. Note that locale can make a really big difference, since in some locales both c and ç are the same character while in others they are not; similarly for n and ñ, or a and á and ã, ….
Unique Unicode chars that look the exact same as letters in the English alphabet? : r/Unicode. r/Unicode. r/Unicode.
This method works fine in java (purely for the purpose of removing diacritical marks aka accents). It basically converts all accented characters into their deAccented counterparts followed by their combining diacritics. Now you can use a regex to strip off the diacritics. import java.text.Normalizer;
If the top row looks like the button, they look identical. Not necessarily the same letter, but look the same. The top-left drop down will let you switch to other alphabets, or specific character sets.
If the number of characters to be converted is small (e.g. Russian alphabet), then a simple dictionary mapping input characters to output characters would suffice. Simply loop through the string and for each character look if it's in the dictionary and if yes, replace it with the replacement character stored in the dictionary.
Sets of characters that could potentially be very similar or identical in some fonts are avoided completely (none of the characters in any set are used at all): 0 O D Q 1 I L J 8 B 5 S 2 Z By avoiding these characters completely, the hope is that the user will enter the correct characters, rather than trying to correct mis-entered characters.
Nowadays, Northern Thai is typically written using the Thai script and Tai Lü using the New Tai Lü script. For Khün, Thai Tham it's the only script though. The preferred style for Khün and Northern Thai look quite different and some letters look very different (for example low ca and a). See this PDF for more examples of the different styles.
Unicode does have upside-down characters. They have "TURNED" in their name: However, it's far from a complete set. Most upside-down text works by choosing characters that happen to have a close-enough resemblance to upside-down letters. It's the equivalent of typing 0.7734 on your calculator to spell "hELLO".
Unicode has a lot of compatibility characters brought over from older character sets (like ISO 8859-1), to make conversion from those character sets easier. Back when character sets were constrained to 8 bits, they would include a few glyphs (like some Greek letters) for the most common math and scientific uses.