[tei-council] on regularizing names

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote:
> Encoders very commonly want to regularize names for purposes of
> searching, sorting, and retrieval.
OK, I get you. You don't go so far as to say that this Sebastian
and that Sebastian are me, but do you claim that "Sebastian"
and "Sebbo" are the same name. So you want a name
as  a first class object, possibly; which would be an entry
in the header; which is an overhead.....

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