From 9801f0389f0381acb8dc5f8492d7c8e39e63023e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Francois Dockes <jfd@recoll.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:15:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fixed bug that would erase search term made of single
 wildcard

---
 src/common/textsplit.cpp | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/common/textsplit.cpp b/src/common/textsplit.cpp
index ae3a5d98..fa14dc54 100644
--- a/src/common/textsplit.cpp
+++ b/src/common/textsplit.cpp
@@ -211,9 +211,11 @@ inline bool TextSplit::emitterm(bool isspan, string &w, int pos,
 	// nothing else. We might want to turn this into a test for a
 	// single utf8 character instead ?
 	if (l == 1) {
-	    int c = (int)w[0];
+	    unsigned int c = ((unsigned int)w[0]) & 0xff;
 	    if (charclasses[c] != A_ULETTER && charclasses[c] != A_LLETTER && 
-                charclasses[c] != DIGIT) {
+                charclasses[c] != DIGIT &&
+		(!(m_flags & TXTS_KEEPWILD) || charclasses[c] != WILD)
+		) {
 		//cerr << "ERASING single letter term " << c << endl;
 		return true;
 	    }