lucene index special characters

Question

I am indexing fields with characters like <,{,//," etc in Lucene Is that fine?

My search query will not contain these special characters but the fields which will be retrieved in response to query might contain one or more of these.

Table: keywords Fields->keyword,text

When the user will enter a search term, it will be matched against the column keyword which will have special characters.

Answer 1

I think it doesnt matter as long as your search term/search phrase/search query doesn't contain special characters