Non alphanumeric characters not allowed inside search word

Platform: iOS

App version number 18.6.2

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

Description of problem: As a Chinese user, when I tried to search the name for an observation using Chinese, the app always quit suddenly after I typed in the spells of characters for about 2-5 seconds (But if I typed really fast to change the spell into Chinese characters, it can somehow bypass that problem and search with Chinese) , so I usually had to search the English name of the species. This problem does appear in most of the time but sometimes may not.

In the photo above it shows that “Non alphanumeric characters not allowed inside search word”, is it a restriction or a problem? I hope this can be solved because it is very inconvenient to search the English name everytime. :(

Step 1: Just try to upload some photos for an observation;

Step 2: Try to search a name with Chinese characters with its spell;

Step 3: usually when typing the second spell the bug appears.

Like the the photo I showed in the second step when I tried to type “tiao zhu“ which is the Chinese term of jumping spider, and just after I type the second character “zhu” representing “spider”, the app quit immediately before I can take a screenshot.

I’m sorry about this. I’d like to try and replicate it so I can write up a bug report, but I’m not sure which Chinese keyboard you’re using:

Which one of these should I choose? (I’m assuming you’re using Chinese (simplifed))

(Sorry I posted a wrong reply and I’ve already deleted it) I am using Chinese (simplified), and I’m using Pinyin - QWERT keyboard. I am not sure whether other types of keyboard have the same bug because I never use them, but some people do, so maybe other Chinese keyboard should be tested too.

bumping up this - was trying to make another bug report about this but tried searched and found the issue has already been reported. Still having this problem in version 1.0.18

I was able to replicate and I’ve made an issue, thanks!