[split] Diplomatic ciphers

[-JKP-]

JKP: I think we are probably talking at cross purposes. What you often and probably always view, it seems, as a series of characters I view as an individual character.

So you view "quomodo" (which is one of the diplomatic-code nulls) as a single character.

Do you honestly think if you had a conversation with someone about diplomatic ciphers that they would know that you were counting seven letters as an individual character? That is what your statement implies. Your statement implies that a one-to-one substitution can be ANY NUMBER OF CHARACTERS because you, personally, count it as one character.

A single "reference" or a single "correspondence" would be understood, but calling "quomodo" (or any of the other character combinations, whether they are symbols or numbers or letters) a "single character" in your personal system is always going to result in miscommunication, and not just with me.