Search does not ignore punctuation characters

[clr-apache]

When searching for "First Last" no results.
When searching for "alias" no results.
The message I'm looking for has "[RESULT][VOTE] New committer for Project: First Last(id:alias)" which clearly should match but it does not.
Could the search or indexing be changed to ignore the "(" and ")" and ":" and perhaps other punctuation characters?
Specific problematic messages available if you DM me. Thanks.