diff --git a/kdelibs-4.7.2-nepomuk_unicode.patch b/kdelibs-4.7.2-nepomuk_unicode.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..819a429
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kdelibs-4.7.2-nepomuk_unicode.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+diff --git a/nepomuk/query/querybuilderdata_p.h b/nepomuk/query/querybuilderdata_p.h
+index 055482e..3880e13 100644
+--- a/nepomuk/query/querybuilderdata_p.h
++++ b/nepomuk/query/querybuilderdata_p.h
+@@ -32,6 +32,28 @@
+ #include "query_p.h"
+ #include "groupterm_p.h"
+ 
++namespace {
++/// A hack to avoid passing extended chars to the bif:search_excerpts method which cannot handle
++/// utf8 chars which use more than one char, ie. wide chars.
++/// Thus, we simply truncate each term at the first wide char.
++QStringList stripExtendedCharsHack(const QStringList& terms) {
++    QStringList newTerms;
++    foreach(const QString& term, terms) {
++        int i = 0;
++        while(i < term.length()) {
++            if(term[i].unicode() > 0x7f) {
++                break;
++            }
++            ++i;
++        }
++        if(i > 0) {
++            newTerms.append(term.left(i));
++        }
++    }
++    return newTerms;
++}
++}
++
+ namespace Nepomuk {
+     namespace Query {
+         class QueryBuilderData
+@@ -246,16 +268,23 @@ namespace Nepomuk {
+                     for( QHash<QString, QStringList>::const_iterator it = m_fullTextSearchTerms.constBegin();
+                          it != m_fullTextSearchTerms.constEnd(); ++it ) {
+                         const QString& varName = it.key();
+-                        const QStringList& terms = it.value();
+-                        // bif:search_excerpt wants a vector of all search terms
+-                        excerptParts
+-                                << QString::fromLatin1("bif:search_excerpt(bif:vector(bif:charset_recode('%1', '_WIDE_', 'UTF-8')), %2)")
+-                            .arg( terms.join(QLatin1String("','")),
+-                                  varName );
++                        const QStringList terms = stripExtendedCharsHack(it.value());
++                        if(terms.count()) {
++                            // bif:search_excerpt wants a vector of all search terms
++                            excerptParts
++                                    << QString::fromLatin1("bif:search_excerpt(bif:vector('%1'), %2)")
++                                       .arg( terms.join(QLatin1String("','")),
++                                             varName );
++                        }
+                     }
+ 
+-                    return QString::fromLatin1("(bif:concat(%1)) as ?_n_f_t_m_ex_")
+-                        .arg(excerptParts.join(QLatin1String(",")));
++                    if(excerptParts.count()) {
++                        return QString::fromLatin1("(bif:concat(%1)) as ?_n_f_t_m_ex_")
++                                .arg(excerptParts.join(QLatin1String(",")));
++                    }
++                    else {
++                        return QString();
++                    }
+                 }
+                 else {
+                     return QString();
diff --git a/kdelibs.spec b/kdelibs.spec
index 2e047c9..6f75367 100644
--- a/kdelibs.spec
+++ b/kdelibs.spec
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 Summary: KDE Libraries
 Version: 4.7.2
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 
 Name: kdelibs
 Epoch: 6
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ Patch50: kdelibs-4.7.0-knewstuff2_gpg2.patch
 Patch51: kdelibs-4.6.2-uri_mimetypes.patch
 
 ## upstream
+# fix nepomuk queries *not* using wide-unicode
+Patch100: kdelibs-4.7.2-nepomuk_unicode.patch
 
 ## security fix
 # Not Upstreamed? why not ? -- Rex
@@ -313,6 +315,7 @@ sed -i -e "s|@@VERSION_RELEASE@@|%{version}-%{release}|" kio/kio/kprotocolmanage
 %patch51 -p1 -b .uri_mimetypes
 
 # upstream patches
+%patch100 -p1 -b .nepomuk_unicode
 
 # security fixes
 %patch200 -p1 -b .CVE-2009-2702
@@ -562,6 +565,9 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Oct 09 2011 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 4.7.2-2
+- upstream nepomuk_unicode patch
+
 * Tue Oct 04 2011 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 4.7.2-1
 - 4.7.2