Voynich text in other characters

[Mark Knowles]

Koen: I suppose with one's own cipher and set of symbols one could still look at questions of entropy,, repeated words and all other general properties of Voynich text without having to match how each symbol appears exactly in Voynichese. In a sense not being bound by Voynich symbols one can explore the kind of cipher that we have without the extra complication of having to fit the precise behaviour of each symbol, matching in to the way it in the Voynich. To me it seems like a good intermediate step, but of course not the end goal. So this means:

Step 1) Construct a cipher in an original alphabet of a similar number of characters to Voynichese which has the same general statistical or other properties as Voynichese.

If Step 1 successful Then

Step 2) Using the Voynich alphabet construct a cipher of a similar kind to step 1, which precisely matches what we see in Voynichese.

I think by breaking these up into 2 separate steps or tasks it makes the end goal easier to arrive at.

In step 1 we establish the general principles and in step 2 will drill down to the specifics. By using an original alphabet in Step 1 it is much easier to detach it from Step 2.

This is the approach I am adopting as I think it is more convenient and easier.