Editing Voynich manuscript (section)

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Various transcription alphabets have been created to encode Voynich characters as Latin characters, to help with cryptanalysis,<ref>{{cite web |last=Zandbergen |first=René |title=Text Analysis – Transcription of the Text |url=http://www.voynich.nu/transcr.html |website=Voynich.nu |access-date=31 March 2018|archive-date=17 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817042737/http://voynich.nu/transcr.html |url-status=live}}</ref> such as the Extensible (originally: European) Voynich Alphabet (EVA).<ref>{{cite web |last=Zandbergen |first=René |title=Text Analysis – Transcription of the Text: Eva |url=http://www.voynich.nu/transcr.html#Eva |website=Voynich.nu |access-date=31 March 2018|archive-date=17 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817042737/http://voynich.nu/transcr.html#Eva |url-status=live}}</ref> The first major one was created by the "First Study Group", led by cryptographer [[William F. Friedman]] in the 1940s, where each line of the manuscript was transcribed to an IBM [[punch card]] to make it [[Machine-readable data|machine readable]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Zandbergen |first=René |title=Text Analysis – Transcription of the Text: FSG |url=http://www.voynich.nu/transcr.html#FSG |website=Voynich.nu |access-date=31 March 2018|archive-date=17 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817042737/http://voynich.nu/transcr.html#FSG |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Reeds1994>{{cite web |url=http://www.apprendre-en-ligne.net/crypto/mystere/wff.pdf |title=William F. Friedman's Transcription of the Voynich Manuscript |last=Reeds |first=Jim |publisher=[[AT&T Bell Laboratories]] |date=7 September 1994 |pages=1–23 |access-date=8 June 2016|archive-date=29 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129071852/http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~reedsj/voynich/wff.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Voynich EVA.svg|thumb|center|upright=3.5|Extensible Voynich Alphabet: Capital EVA letters are sometimes used to illustrate different variations of the same symbol.]]