(10-02-2026, 12:56 PM)eggyk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.For the purposes of communicating about voynich, there isn't any issue. However, using the transliteration alphabets directly to calculate entropy ignores issues like this.
Aye to that. I don't think transliteration based entropy computations can be used as a definitive proof of anything. Still this doesn't mean simple substitution looks feasible.
EDIT: just to clarify, I'm not saying transliterations are useless, they are extremely useful. But a lot of decisions (like whether this is a or o, r or s, whether there are 1 or 2 types of l, etc) are made when interpreting a sequence of glyphs in terms of EVA or another scheme, and it's quite possible that these decisions distort entropy in all kinds of ways.