Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):
- Open the translate interface
- Search a Chinese phrase for the translated strings
- For instance, there is a translated string "苹果香蕉鸭梨"
- I respectively search "苹果", "香蕉" and "鸭梨"
What happens?:
Only the first and the third query ("苹果" and "鸭梨") has result. "香蕉" has no result.
What should have happened instead?:
"香蕉" should have result.
Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
It's most likely because Chinese doesn't use space for word separation, and the search function only shows results at word boundaries as in other languages.
This should not be the case when the search query is Chinese.
(I believe this also affects Japanese)