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Before that feature was available, it was achievable like this: Use the "Substitution + crib grid" solver, click on Show cipher and then type in the letters of the plain text. Though you will have to leave one letter uncribbed for it to work.

Homophonic substitution with spaces

Sometimes a homophonic substitution cipher will encode spaces with one or more symbols. To solve it: Go to File, Load n-grams, navigate to AZdecrypt/N-grams/Spaces and select "5-grams_english+spaces_jarlve_reddit"

Before that method was available, one way was to select the Substitution + units solver with the standard settings, Unit: symbol, Mode: Remove and perhaps Multiplicity weight: 1. (Thread)

Using AZDecrypt to auto-insert spaces in input

Sometimes you have a plaintext that lacks spaces and want to automatically add spaces between words (or what might seem like words). Steps:

• Put a plaintext into the Input window and go to Format, Add spaces to plaintext.
• The spacing is based on the two letter 5-grams files inside the N-grams\Spaces directory.
• Under Options, Solver options there are two settings related to it:
  • (General) Add spaces to output
  • (General) Add spaces to output iterations
• It uses a small hill climber for the function so upping the iterations may improve quality slightly.