Paul Harrison explains how homoglyphs can cause potential issues:
This article will walk through homoglyphs and a proposed type of attack that I have not yet seen in the wild, but I presume has occurred. Every programming language I’m aware of is impacted but I don’t know every programming language, so I’ll stick to PowerShell for the proofs of concepts below. I’ll also show code that I wrote to detect this vulnerability in PowerShell code which can be built upon to create scanners for other languages. The problems I present here can be detected if proper unit testing is in place. I don’t like writing unit tests either, but this is me Pestering you to consider adding unit testing to your pipeline.
Homoglyphs can definitely make it harder to perform code reviews and analyses, particularly when dealing with a malicious actor.