src/pages/search.tsx

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import {
   extractModData,
   isModDataComplete,
   memoizedNormalizeSearchString,
+  normalizeSearchString,
   scrollIntoView
 } from 'utils'
 import { useCuratedSet } from 'hooks/useCuratedSet'
@@ -503,7 +504,7 @@ const GamesResult = ({ searchTerm }: GamesResultProps) => {
   const filteredGames = useMemo(() => {
     if (searchTerm === '') return []
 
-    const normalizedSearchTerm = memoizedNormalizeSearchString(searchTerm)
+    const normalizedSearchTerm = normalizeSearchString(searchTerm)
 
     return games.filter((game) =>
       memoizedNormalizeSearchString(game['Game Name']).includes(

src/utils/utils.ts

@@ -239,9 +239,10 @@ const romanRegex = new RegExp(
 
 export const normalizeSearchString = (str: string): string => {
   str = str.toLowerCase()
+  str = str.replace(romanRegex, (match) => ROMAN_TO_ARABIC_MAP[match])
   str = removeAccents(str)
   str = removeSpecialCharacters(str)
-  return str.replace(romanRegex, (match) => ROMAN_TO_ARABIC_MAP[match])
+  return str
 }
 
 // Memoization function to cache normalized results