VMs: Latin abbreviations

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 09 July 2003 15:48, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> - Perhaps there is no solution (it is just noise)
> If there is:
> - Perhaps it is impossible to retrieve (lost
>   language, irreversible encryption)

I finally started to look systematically at Cappelli's dictionary and, as I 
mentioned earlier, there are many glyphs (and even combination of these) that 
are exactly the same or very similar to those found in the vms text. (I'll 
post a table when I finish it).
It is interesting that many symbols mean different things in different 
contexts (e.g. the glyph as a suffix vs. prefix; even in different words, 
they mean similar things but not exactly).
So, if the same glyphs were used for multiple abbreviations, the result 
becomes a lossy compressed text that cannot be retrieved back accurately 
(unless you know exactly what you wrote). As a consequence I bet that the 
increase of entropy that should be due to the abbreviation, would be lost by 
the multiple mappings of the text into the same glyph.
Short words, text very redundant and therefore low entropy...  but 
unfortunately this could not be read back.

Cheers,

Gabriel



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