Search Filters Out Words Longer Than 20 Characters

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#1  Edited By franzlska

I don't know that this is a "bug" so much as a "curious behavior that has no reason to ever come up", but when searching for items on the site, it seems that any words over 21 characters or longer will be ignored, while any other words in the search will still be recognized.

I first noticed this behavior with the game entry Bababadalgharaghtakamminar...thurnuk. Typing "Bababadalgharaghtaka" into the search bar will net the game's page (two pages technically, as there's currently a duplicate), but adding the first "m" (the 21st character) will return a "'tis but a barren wasteland."

This behavior can also be observed on Constanze Amelie von Braunschbank-Albrechtsberger. While the search bar will recognize the character's last name as two separate words, it can also be searched for as a single word, at which point "Braunschbankalbrecht" will return the character page, while "Braunschbankalbrechts" will not, unless any character after the first is capitalized, starting a new word in the eyes of the search.