Character entropy of Voynichese

[Emma May Smith]

My further thought - a trivial one - is that (as already expressed above), even within the same language the character entropy will be alphabet - dependent on how the alphabet is constructed. So what one needs is to check variations in Voynichese entropies with different approaches to constructing the Voynichese alphabet. Actually if one manages to "construct" a Voynichese alphabet such as that differential entropies would be close to that of the natural languages, that would be a huge step to decrypting Voynichese.

This is a very interesting statement. I'm not certain if it is true but the possibility is intriguing. I would only add that we must have some reasons for modifying the alphabet in order to achieve a better set of entropies.

I know Rene has spoken in the past about how different inputs have changed the entropy measurements of the Voynich text, though even the 'best' was still outlying to natural languages.