I briefly attempted searching for this issue in the forums and issue tracker, but didn't come up with anything immediately, so I apologize if this is old. We are using Alfresco 2.0 and can store documents (nodes) with names containing '-' characters. We can even look those nodes up if we know their id. However, if we attempt to use Lucene to find the node by its path (by constructing a PATH:"…" query), the query will fail. I should note that we escape any '-' in the path. So, it might look something like this: PATH:"content/sources/some\-doc\-with\-hyphen\-in\-name.pdf" If we store the document with '_' characters instead of '-' (and modify the query appropriately), then everything works fine. Is this a known issue? Has it already been fixed? Or do we need to escape/handle '-' characters differently?
