Re: Dairol/Clairol (Re: VMs: ... speculating with "dairal_dhairal")

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Jacques Guy wrote:
> A common stumbling block for optical character-recognition algorithms!

OCR may have been involved in the juice vs. juke example, though both of
the tokens were obtained from CD covers.  The c-cedille : ch example seems
to have come from handwriting.  The individual with the c-cedille name
knew how his grandfather had printed the name, which ended in chois vs.
expected c,ois.

> >being to mislead an uninitiated decypherer into false hypotheses - as if
> >the decypherer were instinctively led into attacking "in tofal sehypot
> >heses."
>
> That is why I don't believe that the spaces should be taken as
> significant. We have to demonstrate that they are significant
> before we can consider them as such.

A reasonable consideration.  However, though I used a word-level example
and interword-spaces, I was thinking of my usual character-level issues
and intercharacter-spacing.

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