Chinese Pinyin(拼音) search doesn't work when it corresponds to more than two characters (or 3 maybe) in PowerToys Run

[VictoireWood]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.86.0

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update, GitHub

Running as admin

No

Area(s) with issue?

PowerToys Run

Steps to reproduce

✔️ Expected Behavior

baidufanyi -> 百度翻译
bdfy -> 百度翻译
baiduwangpan -> 百度网盘
bdwp -> 百度网盘
bd -> 百度翻译 and 百度网盘
baidu -> 百度翻译 and 百度网盘

❌ Actual Behavior

Work as Expected:

• bd -> 百度网盘
• baidu -> 百度网盘

Not as Expected:

• baidufanyi -> 百度翻译
• bdfy -> 百度翻译
• baiduwangpan -> 百度网盘
• bdwp -> 百度网盘
• bd -> 百度翻译
• baidu -> 百度翻译

Other Software

No response

[moooyo]

Hello @VictoireWood , I was trying to repro this issue and find some evidence.

This ability was provided by plugin 'program'. And as its design, it will search every win32 apps and retrieve their link path, program name and exe name etc.

So, I installed "百度网盘" and tried to search them in PowerToys run as query 'bd' and "baidu". It returned the same result just as your description provide.

And I noticed that its target is 'C:\Users\alias\AppData\Roaming\baidu\BaiduNetdisk\BaiduNetdisk.exe' and its app name is "百度网盘".

In plugin program's code, it calculate every program's score to select the best result for this query.
This score depends on some factor. Such as Name "百度网盘" and locExecutableName "BaiduNetdisk.exe".

So, I guess the this confused results caused by these match results:
bd -> BaiduNetdisk.exe
baidu -> BaiduNetdisk.exe

About "百度翻译". Its link target is "C:\Users\alias\AppData\Local\Programs\baidu-translate-client\百度翻译.exe".
So, I guess all of the characters you listed cannot match it.

Any question, please feel to ping me.