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In MediaWiki with no search extensions, I edit a normal wiki page. I place the following sentence (if you can call it that) on a line by itself:

  One < two butundeniably seven > six.

And then try using MediaWiki's search functionality to search for 'butundeniably'. I get: "There were no results matching the query". I suspect the less-than sign is relevant in this behaviour.

Then change the word "two" to be the corresponding digit "2", resulting in this:

  One < 2 butundeniably seven > six.

Now the search successfully finds the page.



I've discussed this on the support desk. One other user reported a similar symptom.  https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Support_desk&offset=20140103140951&limit=20#Search_indexing_affected_by_less-than_sign.3F_35699