Common points of agreement

[david]

OK, I'll wade in.

• VMS is written in a set of distinct characters. Yes
  
• There are 25 characters in the set. Yes and here's my You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.- are we in agreement as to the actual glyphs?
  
• It is not know what any character represents.  Yes
  
• More than one character is written in the same place on some pages. Not sure what you mean here
  
• The character set is used to encodes information in strings of these characters. No - see 1 below
  
• Character distribution in these strings is ordered, i.e not random. No - see 2 below
  
• There is no string of these characters with a known meaning.    Yes
  
• The strings are written left to right. Yes
  
• Individual strings can be organized into arrays separated by spaces. Yes (visually at least)
  
• Arrays are permitted to span lines. Not sure off the top of my head, examples?
  
• Arrays can be used to label images. Yes (visually, at least, there is a case for this unless it is a deception by the author)
  
• Not all arrays are aligned with the left margin. Not sure off the top of my head, examples?
  
• A blank line can be used to separate arrays. Yes
  
• None of the characters are used as punctuation. Yes, to a certain degree of probability
  
• None of the characters are used only as representations of numbers. Unknown - see 3 below
  

1. This is unknown, as we don't know what the text says. Whilst there is a case to be made for gibberish or random information, we can't say it encodes information. There is also the "one way encription" scenario which could mean the information is lost - and so we can't say it encodes information. We'll know the answer when - we can read the text!
   
2. Actually, see 1 above.
   
3. Unknown. The text could be a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..