# Tauber 2026: What Counts as a Character? Alphabet Hypotheses and the Compression Baseline

> James Tauber, 2026. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Listed in the cryptanalysis survey.

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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.

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## Cite it

```
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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[Read it free at voynich.jtauber.com](https://voynich.jtauber.com/posts/alphabet-hypotheses/)

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