diff --git a/lib/redmine/search.rb b/lib/redmine/search.rb
index 54eab77..99795a0 100644
--- a/lib/redmine/search.rb
+++ b/lib/redmine/search.rb
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ module Redmine
 
         # extract tokens from the question
         # eg. hello "bye bye" => ["hello", "bye bye"]
-        @tokens = @question.scan(%r{((\s|^)"[\s\w]+"(\s|$)|\S+)}).collect {|m| m.first.gsub(%r{(^\s*"\s*|\s*"\s*$)}, '')}
+        @tokens = @question.scan(%r{((\s|^)"[^"]+"(\s|$)|\S+)}).collect {|m| m.first.gsub(%r{(^\s*"\s*|\s*"\s*$)}, '')}
         # tokens must be at least 2 characters long
         @tokens = @tokens.uniq.select {|w| w.length > 1 }
         # no more than 5 tokens to search for
diff --git a/test/unit/search_test.rb b/test/unit/search_test.rb
index bd94770..b640202 100644
--- a/test/unit/search_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/search_test.rb
@@ -190,6 +190,14 @@ class SearchTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     Redmine::Database.reset
   end
 
+  def test_fetcher_should_handle_accents_in_phrases
+    f = Redmine::Search::Fetcher.new('No special chars "in a phrase"', User.anonymous, %w(issues), Project.all)
+    assert_equal ['No', 'special', 'chars', 'in a phrase'], f.tokens
+
+    f = Redmine::Search::Fetcher.new('Special chars "in a phrase Öö"', User.anonymous, %w(issues), Project.all)
+    assert_equal ['Special', 'chars', 'in a phrase Öö'], f.tokens
+  end
+
   private
 
   def remove_permission(role, permission)