Highlighter does not highlight when using large exact phrase query [LUCENE-4502]

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For example I have the text

 
The text which appears before and after a highlighted term when using the simple formatter This parameter accepts per-field overrides.

I want to highlight this text with the query

 
String query = "\"which appears before and after a highlighted term when using the simple formatter\""

Using the EnglishAnalyzer it does not highlight.
Using the WhitespaceAnalyzer it's highlight.

If the query is smaller the hightlight is correct.

I have try to track the issue, but it go to deeply into Lucene core at NearSpansUnordered

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Migrated from LUCENE-4502 by Nicolas Labrot (@nithril), updated Aug 09 2013
Attachments: LUCENE-4502.zip

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Nicolas Labrot (@nithril) (migrated from JIRA)

I joined a maven project which reproduce the issue

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Sovanramy VAR (migrated from JIRA)

Hello, I'm taking over the project from Nicolas, and I'm still having the same issue. When there are 7 relevant words on the search query, an empty result is returned, but when only 6 relevant words are used, the good result is returned.

Is there anything we are doing wrong, maybe a configuration parameter to set, or is it a real bug ?

Thank you.