# Multi-field query with query string and a right to left language

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-with-query-string-and-a-right-to-left-language/212972>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 24, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-with-query-string-and-a-right-to-left-language/212972 "2019-12-24T16:35:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![jocky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@jocky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jocky)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-with-query-string-and-a-right-to-left-language/212972/1 "2019-12-24T16:35:38Z")

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I'm trying to execute a simple query string which has a date query and a term in Hebrew. Unfortunately, Elastic fails to parse it and gets the Hebrew term and the date field name confused. Here's the query: `(פסנתר) AND startTime:>=2019-12-01` and the resulting stack trace:

```
    org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchParseException: failed to parse date field [ÎñÎíÎáάο] with format [strict_date_optional_time||epoch_millis]
            at org.elasticsearch.common.joda.DateMathParser.parseDateTime(DateMathParser.java:213) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]
            at org.elasticsearch.common.joda.DateMathParser.parse(DateMathParser.java:66) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]
            at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DateFieldMapper$DateFieldType.parseToMilliseconds(DateFieldMapper.java:308) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]
            at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DateFieldMapper$DateFieldType.innerRangeQuery(DateFieldMapper.java:274) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]
            at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.DateFieldMapper$DateFieldType.termQuery(DateFieldMapper.java:245) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.0.jar:5.6.0]

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How can I fix this? I'd rather stay with the query string option, rather than switching to a multi-clause query, as it makes things simpler for me.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-field-query-with-query-string-and-a-right-to-left-language/212972/2 "2020-01-21T16:35:41Z")

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