[Article] Entropy Analysis of Questionable Text Sources by Example of the Voynich Manuscript

[Anton]

What remains mysterious is that the number of different characters in the various plain texts are extremely large, e.g. 140 for an Italian text. Even counting upper and lower case, the various accented characters, and interpunction, I can't understand where that comes from.

Russian beats 'em all   141! Let's see: 33 letters, capitalization doubles that to 66, then ten digits and, let's say, fifteen punctuation marks, this gives 91... still far from 141.