Can someone confirm the problem?
Motivation: search results misses the first letters of filenames in Find in Files with some filenames. Not symlink dependent.
Proposal: missing escape in filename.
In KDE community forums, there is no Kile application in the list so I cannot report it directly in the forum there. I sent already a message to the email list.
Failing filenames
/home/masi/Desktop/1.12.2015.tex
/home/masi/Desktop/Presentation.tex
Kile: 2.1.3
Systems: Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 8.5
Hardware: Macbook Air 2013-mid and Dell PC i3 2013