Thanks, Jeremy. That works.
We are trying to find a solution for our not very tech savvy
users, so that they don't need to do escapes or quotes.....

But thanks for the useful advice.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Jeremy Peterson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've used quotation marks to allow hyphens, specifically for account
> numbers (1234-6789).  For my advanced search, all account numbers get
> special handling.
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Thursday, July 14, 2011, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Jorge
>>
>> There's no way to not escape hyphens, I'm afraid (at least, if you're using 
>> extended and boolean match modes - but could apply in all situations). It's 
>> used by Sphinx as a NOT operator for boolean queries, hence the need to 
>> escape it.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Pat
>>
>> On 14/07/2011, at 5:00 AM, Jorge wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Currently, I have to escape the dash character in order to treat
>>> it as a regular character.  Eg   UIO\-123
>>>
>>> I am using the utf-8 character set. I have tried add a dash to
>>> my charset_table, but it doesn't seem to work.
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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