# Query using a wildcard not working with icu\_collation filter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-using-a-wildcard-not-working-with-icu-collation-filter/42508>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-using-a-wildcard-not-working-with-icu-collation-filter/42508 "2016-02-23T15:13:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ribugent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ribugent/32/8003_2.png) [@ribugent](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ribugent)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-using-a-wildcard-not-working-with-icu-collation-filter/42508/1 "2016-02-23T15:13:54Z")

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Hello everyone

for my work I need to create an index which uses unicode collation algorithm, but we discovered that wildcard queries are not working.

One of the first tests were tried to switch text fields from our analyzer to standard, and it worked. I read many times the docs and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, is a limitation or a bug...

Also I queried the \_validate/query endpoint to check there's something wrong but I didn't seen anything strange.

I've uploaded a bash script to my gist account which recreates my problem

> <https://gist.github.com/ribugent/ad842294f4f9380da9c9>

Thanks in advance.

PD: I'm using elasticsearch version 2.1.1

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-using-a-wildcard-not-working-with-icu-collation-filter/42508/2 "2017-07-05T23:14:11Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 11:14pm UTC