Ah, found the solutions here: http://www.nabble.com/Zend_Lucene-%2B-UTF8-search-problem...-Help!(8EB-F5F)-td18630403.html
Conversion to ASCII with TRANSLIT was that Lucene was searching for question marks :) Lucene is really great tool :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Zend_Search_Lucene-and-Hebrew-tp22938539p23214366.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.