Distinguishing Characters

[Mark Knowles]

One thing which may be harder in ciphers other than the Voynich is identifying spaces. I get the impression that spaces are fairly well defined in the Voynich. In some other ciphers of the time that may not be the case which adds a difficulty in deciphering them, so maybe we should be grateful at least for that when it comes to Voynichese.

Of course, this assumes that Voynichese spaces correspond to real spaces.