Spaces and Entropy

[Juan_Sali]

Generally I think removing spaces is a good idea for entropy statistics as it also removes a lot of potential parsing errors (what's a space, half-space and so on).
But can we infer from this that spaces in the VM indeed function like they do in ordinary texts? This would indicate they are not nulls and glyph combinations across spaces are different from ghyph combinations confined by spaces. I would expect that, has this been investigated?

Spaces are needed if same glyph can be a letter or the starting of a bigram/3-gram that forms a letter. It would be a way to distinguish between both cases. Spaces would be letter/letters separators and by extension glyph combinations would be only within spaces.