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@@ -657,9 +657,16 @@ Whitespace}).
@item escape-glyph
The face for displaying control characters and escape sequences
(@pxref{Text Display}).
+@item homoglyph
+The face for displaying lookalike characters, i.e., characters that
+look like but are not the characters being represented
+(@pxref{Text Display}).
@item nobreak-space
The face for displaying no-break space characters (@pxref{Text
Display}).
+@item nobreak-hyphen
+The face for displaying no-break hyphen characters (@pxref{Text
+Display}).
@end table
The following faces control the appearance of parts of the Emacs
@@ -1490,7 +1497,7 @@ characters. To deal with this problem, Emacs displays such characters
specially: it displays @code{U+00A0} (no-break space) with the
@code{nobreak-space} face, and it displays @code{U+00AD} (soft
hyphen), @code{U+2010} (hyphen), and @code{U+2011} (non-breaking
-hyphen) with the @code{escape-glyph} face. To disable this, change
+hyphen) with the @code{nobreak-hyphen} face. To disable this, change
the variable @code{nobreak-char-display} to @code{nil}. If you give
this variable a non-@code{nil} and non-@code{t} value, Emacs instead
displays such characters as a highlighted backslash followed by a
@@ -1517,12 +1524,12 @@ for details.
@cindex curly quotes
@cindex curved quotes
-@cindex escape-glyph face
+@cindex homoglyph face
If the curved quotes @samp{‘}, @samp{’}, @samp{“}, and @samp{”} are
known to look just like @acronym{ASCII} characters, they are shown
-with the @code{escape-glyph} face. Curved quotes that cannot be
+with the @code{homoglyph} face. Curved quotes that cannot be
displayed are shown as their @acronym{ASCII} approximations @samp{`},
-@samp{'}, and @samp{"} with the @code{escape-glyph} face.
+@samp{'}, and @samp{"} with the @code{homoglyph} face.
@node Cursor Display
@section Displaying the Cursor