I guess it depends what he means by "visually encoded" Hebrew.
According to Haughton, Finn considered an/ain/aiin/aiiin to be the same, to stand for "eye". Why would anyone write "eye" multiple times per sentence for 200 pages? And if that means "eye" then what about the very short tokens or single glyphs in front of "eye"? It doesn't sound statistically plausible.
Hannig's idea is basically a substitution cipher.
According to Haughton, Finn considered an/ain/aiin/aiiin to be the same, to stand for "eye". Why would anyone write "eye" multiple times per sentence for 200 pages? And if that means "eye" then what about the very short tokens or single glyphs in front of "eye"? It doesn't sound statistically plausible.
Hannig's idea is basically a substitution cipher.