Forbidden characters inside CONTAINS (Transact-SQL) statement

Question

I would like to know which characters cannot be inserted into a CONTAINS statement.

For example, let's assume I have an entry in my DB with name='Jon Snow'.

Running this query I correctly get the result.

select name
from Userstable
where CONTAINS((name),'JON AND SNOW')

Running e.g.

select name
from Userstable
where CONTAINS((name),'JO*N AND SNOW')

I get 0 results (but no error, so that's OK).

Instead, running e.g.

select name
from Userstable
where CONTAINS((name),'J[ON AND SNOW')

I get syntax error. What are the characters that give me syntax errors?

So far I found:

[
]
!
,

Thanks

Answer 1

I think I found all the forbidden characters.

,
'
"
~
(
)
[
]
!