Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'

[nominatim.git] / nominatim / api / search / icu_tokenizer.py

diff --git a/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py b/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
index fceec2df522feb5105936204b099e9a8a7a2ad96..06a06f34984e32c033837bf68c362cf34ea272e6 100644 (file)
--- a/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
+++ b/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
@@ -207,7 +207,12 @@ class ICUQueryAnalyzer(AbstractQueryAnalyzer):
             standardized form search will work with. All information removed
             at this stage is inevitably lost.
         """
-        return cast(str, self.normalizer.transliterate(text))
+        norm = cast(str, self.normalizer.transliterate(text))
+        numspaces = norm.count(' ')
+        if numspaces > 4 and len(norm) <= (numspaces + 1) * 3:
+            return ''
+
+        return norm
 
 
     def split_query(self, query: qmod.QueryStruct) -> Tuple[QueryParts, WordDict]: