Maybe you could translate those <sc> tag contents into the corresponding unicode symbols. At least I would hope that text searching algorithms deal with that kind of expansion already, that they match vii with Ⅶ and ⅶ.
Ühel kenal päeval, E, 28.09.2020 kell 21:54, kirjutas Liam R. E. Quin:
On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 19:32 -0400, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
At
https://words.fromoldbooks.org/Search/
a search for henry shows lots of matches, and sodoes a search for
henry
i, but henry ii and henry viis missing and so is henry viii.
Actually it turns out (1) Henry VIII doesn't occur :) although the
others do... and (2) in each case the roman numerals are surrounded by
markup, <sc>III</sc> or whatever.
So maybe it's behaving as expected!
I'll remove the sc markup and see. Sorry ofr the noise.
Liam