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Robert Muir updated LUCENE-9754:
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    Attachment: LUCENE-9754_prototype.patch

> ICU Tokenizer: letter-space-number-letter tokenized inconsistently
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>                 Key: LUCENE-9754
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9754
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: core/search
>    Affects Versions: 7.5
>         Environment: Tested most recently on Elasticsearch 6.5.4.
>            Reporter: Trey Jones
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: LUCENE-9754_prototype.patch
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> The tokenization of strings like _14th_ with the ICU tokenizer is affected by 
> the character that comes before preceeding whitespace.
> For example, _x 14th_ is tokenized as x | 14th; _ァ 14th_ is tokenized as ァ | 
> 14 | th.
> In general, in a letter-space-number-letter sequence, if the writing system 
> before the space is the same as the writing system after the number, then you 
> get two tokens. If the writing systems differ, you get three tokens.
> If the conditions are just right, the chunking that the ICU tokenizer does 
> (trying to split on spaces to create <4k chunks) can create an artificial 
> boundary between the tokens (e.g., between _ァ_ and _14th_) and prevent the 
> unexpected split of the second token (_14th_). Because chunking changes can 
> ripple through a long document, editing text or the effects of a character 
> filter can cause changes in tokenization thousands of lines later in a 
> document.
> My guess is that some "previous character set" flag is not reset at the 
> space, and numbers are not in a character set, so _t_ is compared to _ァ_ and 
> they are not the same—causing a token split at the character set change—but 
> I'm not sure.
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