Character entropy of Voynichese

[Anton]

Relatively two languages “A” and “B” can not exclude following the development of events.
Author “A” in the process died without having completed the manuscript. Contours of figures have already been drawn. It remains only to write the text. Author (s) "B" knew very little language (did not know the language at all). "B" began using commonly used words from the language of "A" generate (invent) a word. The whole language “B“- a fake.
 
I can not understand how to apply the the words of the herbal section name in the stars. In my opinion, what is called the stars, the stars are not. It looks like a child's drawing of a flower with petals. The same applies to the last section, when the flower with the colored (red) the middle divides recipes into groups. (Anton wrote about it)

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The entropy is anomalously low, independent of the transcription alphabet. Indeed, there are different results depending on which alphabet is used, but these differences are significantly smaller than the anomaly observed.

Yes, but the point is that we don't know the real alphabet. We simply impose our own alphabets to Voynichese, but they may be all inadequate. What if iin is not three characters but a single character, and so on.

Character entropy is alphabet-dependent (as well is word entropy is dictionary-dependent), so my point is that, in the absence of knowledge of the alphabet and the dictionary, far-reaching conclusions should not be made from the entropy perspective alone. 

The other thing is that (and here I reply to Emma) if we begin to introduce more character groupings (in order for character entropy to rise), then Voynichese would look even more (and not less!) strange in respect to the natural language hypothesis - the average word length will become shorter and all that. And there are other points against natural language (I guess you made a blog post about that recently )