diff --git a/dateparser/languages/locale.py b/dateparser/languages/locale.py
index b109c5a9f..b47148ea0 100644
--- a/dateparser/languages/locale.py
+++ b/dateparser/languages/locale.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from collections.abc import Iterable, Iterator, Mapping, Sequence
 from functools import cached_property
 from itertools import chain, islice, product
+from string import punctuation
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, TypeVar
 
 import regex as re
@@ -1056,15 +1057,12 @@ def get_wordchars_for_detection(self, settings: "Settings | None") -> set[str]:
                 "7",
                 "8",
                 "9",
-                ":",
-                "(",
-                ")",
-                "'",
                 "q",
                 "a",
                 "m",
                 "p",
                 " ",
+                *punctuation,
             }
         return self._wordchars_for_detection
 
diff --git a/dateparser/search/text_detection.py b/dateparser/search/text_detection.py
index 98017db38..ac62dc8b1 100644
--- a/dateparser/search/text_detection.py
+++ b/dateparser/search/text_detection.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def character_check(self, date_string: str, settings: Settings) -> None:
         ]
         self.languages = [
             i for j, i in enumerate(self.languages) if j not in indices_to_pop
-        ]
+        ] or [self.languages[0]]
 
     @apply_settings
     def _best_language(
diff --git a/tests/test_search.py b/tests/test_search.py
index c00b1cc57..6e56d0964 100644
--- a/tests/test_search.py
+++ b/tests/test_search.py
@@ -1114,6 +1114,15 @@ def test_detection(self, shortname: str, text: str) -> None:
                     ("21 марта", datetime.datetime(2001, 3, 21, 0, 0)),
                 ],
             ),
+            param(
+                text="july 2018 - december 2020",
+                languages=["en", "fr"],
+                settings={"PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH": "first"},
+                expected=[
+                    ("july 2018", datetime.datetime(2018, 7, 1, 0, 0)),
+                    ("december 2020", datetime.datetime(2020, 12, 1, 0, 0)),
+                ],
+            ),
             param(
                 text="um 10 Uhr am 5. Mai 2021",
                 languages=["de"],
@@ -1128,10 +1137,19 @@ def test_detection(self, shortname: str, text: str) -> None:
                 settings=None,
                 expected=[("1990 am 3. März in", datetime.datetime(1990, 3, 3, 0, 0))],
             ),
+            param(
+                text="20/10/2020 06:00 am",
+                languages=["en"],
+                settings=None,
+                expected=[
+                    ("20/10/2020 06:00 am", datetime.datetime(2020, 10, 20, 6, 0))
+                ],
+            ),
             # Dates not found
             param(text="", languages=None, settings=None, expected=None),
             # Language not detected
             param(text="Привет", languages=["en"], settings=None, expected=None),
+            param(text="Привет", languages=None, settings=None, expected=None),
             # ZeroDivisionError
             param(
                 text="DECEMBER 21 19.87 87",