How multi-character substitution might explain the voynich’s strange entropy

[Koen G]

But I also agree with @Jorge_Stolfi here: n-grams entropies do not necessarily mean much because they are heavily dependent on the transcription. Word entropies are more reliable (they only depend on 'space' being actually a 'space', and on differently written words being actually different words).

I don't agree with Stolfi's dismissal of letter-based statistics. We don't know if Voynichese is a phonetic representation at all. Whatever it is, is very much dependent on its writing system. So to get a clue about what's going on, we must compare different ways of transliterating Voynichese to different writing systems. Including codes and ciphers, which are essentially also writing systems.

What I do vehemently agree with is that people must be more aware that Voynichese =/= EVA. When running letter-based tests, there must always be awareness of the choices made and their effects.