Bug in the category picker?

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Hello,

It seems like the category picker excludes certain categories. Example the category for the Swedish parish "Åhus (L)".

It only shows if you type the whole name out. I thought it might be the special letter Å that makes the category picker confused, but then right at the bottom of the list the cemetery for Åhus shows up. Same problem for Åby parish.

Then I suspected the parentheses to be the culprit. However other parishes shows up parentheses and all, so it is not like the parentheses excludes all Swedish parishes.

I then thought maybe it is only a problem for short (place) names, the picker does need a few letter before it picks up anything, but when I tested with another short place name; Ivö, it shows without problem.

I know that there is a limit on how many categories shows up in the list, and Åhus does generate a lot of irrelevant matches, I guess it doesn't include/prioritize the Å in the search.

I hope there is a solution to this. Ideally I would love to see the Swedish parishes with the full name (parish, county, country) like other countries has it set up, then we also would have more to search for (example: "Åh Kr" would probably show the parish), having to type out parentheses each time you want to add a short, special letter parish seems like unnecessary effort to me.
in WikiTree Tech by Antonia Reuvers G2G6 Mach 5 (58.9k points)

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