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What Counts as a Character? Alphabet Hypotheses and the Compression Baseline

James Tauber, 2026. Voynich (James Tauber's blog).

A 2026 post on James Tauber's Voynich blog about which glyph groupings should count as single characters, comparing alphabet hypotheses against a compression baseline.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptWeb pageChecked against the original0

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Tauber, J. (2026). What Counts as a Character? Alphabet Hypotheses and the Compression Baseline. Voynich (James Tauber's blog). https://voynich.jtauber.com/posts/alphabet-hypotheses/
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