X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/3d0bc85b4d33c8e88321785762edb50e531aac55..1c33cb3186a38ceb5cc4de0975ae1956c861f9b5:/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py

diff --git a/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py b/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
index 7bf516e3..d3e34537 100644
--- a/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
+++ b/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
@@ -192,7 +192,12 @@ 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]: