Hypervector Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

[dvallis]

Thanks Darrin for this interesting analysis.

I read the linked page, and it leaves me with a number of questions.

What exactly do you mean with:

Languages in non-Latin characters were machine transliterated before normalization.

If one uses Unicode, there is no longer any issue with non-Latin characters. One can still apply the language rules to translate upper case to lower case (for languages that use two cases).

Hi Rene

I used a Linux package call unidecode from github. See the description below. I definitely need to write the "one click down" article as you guys have a lot of excellent questions.

[b]Description:[/b]
Text::Unidecode provides a function, `unidecode(...)' that takes Unicode data and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters (i.e., the universally displayable characters between 0x00 and 0x7F). The representation is almost always an attempt at *transliteration* -- i.e., conveying, in Roman letters, the pronunciation expressed by the text in some other writing system