diff --git a/tests/nonumbers/nonumbers.sh b/tests/nonumbers/nonumbers.sh
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/nonumbers/nonumbers.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+thisdir=`dirname $0`
+topdir="$thisdir"/..
+. "$topdir"/shared.sh
+
+initvariables $0
+
+
+docdir=`mktemp -d --tmpdir rcltest.XXXX`
+test -d "$docdir" || exit 1
+
+cleanup()
+{
+    rm -f "$docdir"/docnonumbers.txt
+    rm -rf "$docdir"/config
+    rmdir "$docdir"
+}
+trap cleanup 0 2 15
+
+cat > "$docdir"/docnonumbers.txt <<EOF
+7569373329
++5858383546
+-8499393438
+88738.87243
+EOF
+
+RECOLL_CONFDIR="$docdir"/config/
+mkdir "$RECOLL_CONFDIR" || exit 1
+export RECOLL_CONFDIR
+
+mkconf()
+{
+    nonumbers=$1
+    egrep 'cachedir|loglevel|logfilename|idxlogfilename' \
+          ../config/recoll.conf > \
+          "$RECOLL_CONFDIR"/recoll.conf
+
+    cat >> "$RECOLL_CONFDIR"/recoll.conf <<EOF
+noaspell = 1
+indexstemminglanguages=
+topdirs = $docdir
+nonumbers = $nonumbers
+EOF
+}
+
+idxandquery()
+{
+    nonumbers=$1
+    recollindex -c "$RECOLL_CONFDIR" -z
+    echo "Running queries with nonumbers=$nonumbers" >> $mystdout
+    (
+        for w in 7569373329 "+5858383546" "-8499393438" "88738.87243" ; do
+            echo querying for $w
+            recollq -a -S url -q " $w"
+        done
+    )  2> $mystderr | egrep -v '^Recoll query: ' >> $mystdout
+}
+
+
+cp /dev/null $mystdout
+
+nonumbers=1
+mkconf $nonumbers
+idxandquery $nonumbers
+
+nonumbers=0
+mkconf $nonumbers
+idxandquery $nonumbers
+
+# Have to delete the tempdir name from the output for comparison
+sed -i -e "s,$docdir,,g" $mystdout
+
+diff -w ${myname}.txt $mystdout > $mydiffs 2>&1
+
+checkresult
diff --git a/tests/nonumbers/nonumbers.txt b/tests/nonumbers/nonumbers.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..676ee6ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/nonumbers/nonumbers.txt
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+Running queries with nonumbers=1
+querying for 7569373329
+querying for +5858383546
+querying for -8499393438
+querying for 88738.87243
+Running queries with nonumbers=0
+querying for 7569373329
+1 results
+text/plain	[file:///docnonumbers.txt]	[docnonumbers.txt]	47	bytes	
+querying for +5858383546
+1 results
+text/plain	[file:///docnonumbers.txt]	[docnonumbers.txt]	47	bytes	
+querying for -8499393438
+1 results
+text/plain	[file:///docnonumbers.txt]	[docnonumbers.txt]	47	bytes	
+querying for 88738.87243
+1 results
+text/plain	[file:///docnonumbers.txt]	[docnonumbers.txt]	47	bytes