Bug 515637 - Weather station search shouldn't require punctuation
Summary: Weather station search shouldn't require punctuation
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Weather widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.5.5
Platform: CachyOS Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2026-02-06 16:19 UTC by Isaac Rogers
Modified: 2026-02-06 17:12 UTC (History)
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Description Isaac Rogers 2026-02-06 16:19:04 UTC 
SUMMARY
I expect the search results for "st louis" to be a superset of the results for "st. louis", but all NOAA stations are missing from the former.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open "Weather Report" widget settings, "Weather Station" tab
2. Type "st louis" in the search bar, note results
3. Replace search with "st. louis"

OBSERVED RESULT
"st louis" finds BBC stations but does not find NOAA stations.
Interestingly, two results are not a substring match: `Saint-Louis, Senegal, SN (BBC Weather)` and `Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, United States, US (BBC Weather)`

"st. louis" finds both BBC stations and NOAA stations

EXPECTED RESULT
Both queries find BBC stations and NOAA stations

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.18.8-3-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.2 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Comment 1 TraceyC 2026-02-06 17:12:32 UTC 
I can reproduce this on Plasma built from git-master