Is there a list of characters that look similar to English letters?

Question

I’m having a crack at profanity filtering for a web forum written in Python.

As part of that, I’m attempting to write a function that takes a word, and returns all p

Answer 1

I created a python class to do exactly this, based on Robin's unicode link for "confusables"

https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables

For example, "Hello" would get expanded into the following set of regexp character classes:

[H\Ｈ\ℋ\ℌ\ℍ\