Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'

[nominatim.git] / src / nominatim_api / search / icu_tokenizer.py

diff --git a/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py b/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
index fa14531aed0d6c07cf79c277255324495b1b063d..c18dd8be62ed1190284e9c0751464b5e54091a47 100644 (file)
--- a/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
+++ b/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
@@ -202,7 +202,12 @@ 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]:
         """ Transliterate the phrases and split them into tokens.