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BaseTokenizer.normalize method calls non-existent _tokenizer.normalize #1882

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Bug description:

The normalize method in BaseTokenizer incorrectly calls self._tokenizer.normalize() which doesn't exist. The Tokenizer object only has a normalizer attribute, not a normalize method.

from tokenizers import SentencePieceUnigramTokenizer

tokenizer = SentencePieceUnigramTokenizer()
tokenizer.train_from_iterator(["hello world"], vocab_size=100)

try:
    normalized = tokenizer.normalize("hello world")
    print("Success:", normalized)
except AttributeError as e:
    print("BUG REPRODUCED:", e)

Raises AttributeError: 'tokenizers.Tokenizer' object has no attribute 'normalize'

In base_tokenizer.py, line 190:

def normalize(self, sequence: str) -> str:
    return self._tokenizer.normalize(sequence)  # BUG: 'normalize' method doesn't exist

Should be:

def normalize(self, sequence: str) -> str:
    return self._tokenizer.normalizer.normalize(sequence)  # FIX: use normalizer attribute

tokenizers version: 0.22.1

Operating systems tested on: Linux

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