X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/98aed7cf6032d4f318c99d8c326ba1edb17886cf..19dfe0fdd45e0541b7171a96c16ecc9a84dd4c36:/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py?ds=sidebyside

diff --git a/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py b/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
index 8f2069c1..44afce9f 100644
--- a/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
+++ b/src/nominatim_api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ 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.