(18-04-2019, 03:03 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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:
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Certainly there are situations where one doesn't want to be bound by Voynich symbols, but this thread was a very specific exercise (a good idea, in my opinion) and as Koen pointed out, and I agree, it would add an additional layer of complication, and that is simply not necessary to achieve the goals posed by the exercise.
Feel free to make the suggestion for alternate characters on other threads. I honestly don't think it's appropriate here, but I'll defer to Rene, since he posed the exercise.