[split] Diplomatic ciphers

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Mark, you said that the diplomatic characters map with one character to one letter. Here is your statement again:

In the diplomatic ciphers one is dealing with for example an individual character $ corresponds to a letter B or an individual character % corresponds to a null.

I gave examples from actual diplomatic ciphers that map several characters to one letter and which map several characters to a null. This occurs with symbols, with letters of the alphabet, and with Latin abbreviations. Regardless of which one is used, one cannot generalize that diplomatic ciphers are constructed in the way you described in that statement.


I am very interested in ciphers, including the diplomatic ciphers, so I would love to discuss it, but we need correct statements in order to go forward.