# Something wrong with wildcard search for utf8 charaa

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/something-wrong-with-wildcard-search-for-utf8-charaa/172478>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 15, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/something-wrong-with-wildcard-search-for-utf8-charaa/172478 "2019-03-15T08:13:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![gesuper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19adc/32.png) [@gesuper](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gesuper)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/something-wrong-with-wildcard-search-for-utf8-charaa/172478/1 "2019-03-15T08:13:25Z")

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I have a index with india language, below is the map and some data  
when i try to seach by [http://localhost:9200/community/user/\_search?q=name:_मई की न्यूज़_](http://localhost:9200/community/user/_search?q=name:*%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%88%20%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A5%9B*), everything is fine. I can get the data which i want

but, when i want query name by wildcard, like `curl --request GET \ --url http://localhost:9200/community/user/_search \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --header 'Postman-Token: 9f976f3b-609f-40c2-93c1-c333bbeb4e77' \ --header 'cache-control: no-cache' \ --data '{"query": {"bool": {"must": {"wildcard": {"name": "*मई की न्यूज़*"}}}}}'`, I got zero records.

but, if i replace `मई की न्यूज़` to 'abc', I can get data again  
somebody can helper?

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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:** [April 12, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/something-wrong-with-wildcard-search-for-utf8-charaa/172478/2 "2019-04-12T08:13:25Z")

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