X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/671af4cff24ed671bed414160a73ea3541907d29..96d7a8e8f6597008d63da68c941916d5775ea8da:/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 6f1dcf79..487dd171 100644
--- a/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
+++ b/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ 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))
+        return cast(str, self.normalizer.transliterate(text)).strip('-: ')
 
     def split_query(self, query: qmod.QueryStruct) -> Tuple[QueryParts, WordDict]:
         """ Transliterate the phrases and split them into tokens.