Escaping hyphens in search no longer working

I am using Anki ⁨2.1.44.

Beginning a search term with a hyphen matches cards not including the search term. To search for a term beginning with a hyphen, it used to be possible to escape the hyphen with a backslash, or to use quotes, as explained in the documentation.

However, this no longer works. Entering a search term beginning with -, the search term is automatically changed to begin with -. Similarly, quotes are automatically removed.

Escaping other characters (e.g. : \ *) seems to still work fine.

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@Rumo mind looking into this?

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Thanks for the report! I missed that one when removing the default quotation.

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