# Wildcard with ascii

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-with-ascii/10015>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 10, 2012, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-with-ascii/10015 "2012-12-10T12:29:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![smhdiu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/smhdiu/32/1808_2.png) [@smhdiu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smhdiu)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-with-ascii/10015/1 "2012-12-10T12:29:16Z")

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Hello,

i am searching names using the wildcard query it works fine however when we  
do search for ascii characters it is not working well  
like when user search for "Hélè\*", its not able to search.

note that i have already created analyzer that does ascii folding and  
lowercase on name field.

also its working fine when we do search in query\_string. does that mean  
wildcard is not analyzing the ascii folding and query string does ?  
if yes then is there any way to achieve wildcard with ascii ?

any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,  
Mohsin

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**Author:** ![smhdiu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/smhdiu/32/1808_2.png) [@smhdiu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smhdiu)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-with-ascii/10015/2 "2012-12-10T15:40:39Z")

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UP

On Monday, 10 December 2012 12:29:16 UTC, mohsin husen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> i am searching names using the wildcard query it works fine however when  
> we do search for ascii characters it is not working well  
> like when user search for "Hélè\*", its not able to search.
> 
> note that i have already created analyzer that does ascii folding and  
> lowercase on name field.
> 
> also its working fine when we do search in query\_string. does that mean  
> wildcard is not analyzing the ascii folding and query string does ?  
> if yes then is there any way to achieve wildcard with ascii ?
> 
> any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,  
> Mohsin

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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 6, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-with-ascii/10015/3 "2017-07-06T03:00:33Z")

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