RE: diacritics on query string

Hi Andrea. I suspect your servlet container. For Tomcat, you have to make several adjustments to handle non-ASCII characters: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding If you are using Jetty or another container, there probably is a similar configuration issue. Cheers, Yuval -Origin

specifying the doc id in clustering component

I'm using the clustering component with solr 1.4. The response is given by the id field in the doc array like: "labels":["Devices"], "docs":["200066", "195650", "204850", Is there a way to change the doc label to be another field? i couldn't this option in http

Re: Can I tell Solr to merge *oldest* rather than smallest segments - if so I think I wouldn't need optimize anymore.

You can! (At least at the Lucene level) You just need to implement a custom MergePolicy. Or, the default (LogByteSizeMergePolicy) already has a calibrateSizeByDeletes attr which proportionally discounts segments according to their %tg deletes, thus making big segments that are mostly deleted loo