X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/c5836c80905200fb7a857f3704d441c9992b69f6..e604b9d130a1b1b2241121a9016617429b6b1c49:/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py

diff --git a/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py b/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
index b68e8d10..d2cdd96e 100644
--- a/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
+++ b/nominatim/api/search/icu_tokenizer.py
@@ -201,7 +201,12 @@ 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]: