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Tag search breaks if a space is added
In the Q&A category of Meta a tag search for "proposal" shows 4 results, but a tag search for "proposal " (with a trailing space, as is commonly automatically inserted when typing on mobile) shows 0 results.
This seems to be a literal string search. For contrast, a search for "bug" shows 4 results, but a search for "bug " (with a trailing space) shows only 2 results. With the trailing space the "bug" tag does not show up as it only contains "bug" in the tag name, with no trailing space, but the "posts" and "status-completed" tags do show up as they contain "bug reports" and "bug has" in their respective descriptions, which have a space after "bug". The tag "status-bydesign" shows up in a search for "bug" as its description ends with "bug." but the lack of a space after the word in the description means this tag does not show up in a search for "bug " (with a trailing space).
Should the search terms be stripped of leading and trailing spaces before being processed to prevent this behaviour?
Note that this problem only seems to affect searches in the Tags tab. A search for "interface" in the Posts tab gives identical results with or without a trailing space, even though the results include "Allow users to select their own default license per site and category, possibly per post type" which only contains "interface." (at the end of a sentence, not followed by a space).
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