Re: VMs: VMS, languages and Jacobus signature

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure how much analyzing romanized Chinese text will tell you. 
For example, it seems like analyzing the same text in different 
romanization schemes (say pinyin and Wade-Giles) would give you 
radically different results.

Also, romanization would obscure the fact that Chinese has only a small 
number of syllables (about 500 I think) into each of which many 
different characters are mapped.

Regards,

Bruce

Marcio wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running some text analysis on the VMS. The analysis currently also 
> includes texts from English, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin. I want to use 
> other languages like Chinese, so here is a question:
>
> Are Chinese texts in a romanized transcription available somewhere ? (I could 
> only find texts in BIG5, which is no big deal, but it is easier to work with 
> plain ASCII).
>
> On another subject, I have seen many references to Jacobus signature on the 
> first page, but has anyone *actually* seen it ? Or is it the kind of "urban 
> legend" that is told on and on ? It would be great if anyone could provide a 
> scanned image or UV photo that shows the signature, as well as images of 
> other works where the same signature allegedly appears.
>
> PS: is the Cryptologia edition with Gordon's paper out ? Anyone read it ? 
>
> Regards,
> Marcio.
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