Re: [web-annotation] Reference to text encoding in spec perhaps not appropriate

> And if there were copy paste-s done when putting together the text, 
then the representation of the same text may be slightly different 
within the text… Hence the normalization.

@iherman too many 'text' words there for me to be sure what you're 
saying. The only way i can see to understand this is if the Text 
Position Selector values are manually created by users looking at the 
target text and typing what they think they see into the annotation 
body. Is that a valid use case?

I don't see how normalization helps distinguish between possible 
matches when there are mutliple alternative ranges of text in the 
target document that match the text position selector values. If 
anything, i'd have thought it would do the opposite, by removing 
idiosynchratic differences, which is what normailzation is about. If 
you want to find all possible matches, then that's fine, but i think 
that here we want to find the unique match where possible, no?

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