Re: wildcards and German umlauts

2011-05-30 Thread Jan Høydahl
Hi, Agree that this is annoying for foreign languages. I get the idea behind the original behaviour, but there could be more elegant ways of handling it. It would make sense to always run the CharFilters. Perhaps a mechanism where TokenFilters can be tagged for exclusion from wildcard terms wou

Re: wildcards and German umlauts

2011-05-29 Thread mdz-munich
Ah, NOW I got it. It's not a bug, it's a feature. But that would mean, that every character-manipulation (e.g. char-mapping/replacement, Porter-Stemmer in some cases ...) would cause a wildcard-query to fail. That too bad. But why? What's the Problem with passing the prefix through the analyzer/

Re: wildcards and German umlauts

2011-05-29 Thread mdz-munich
I don't get you. Did I wrote something of an Analyzer? Actually not. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/wildcards-and-German-umlauts-tp499972p2999074.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: wildcards and German umlauts

2011-05-29 Thread Markus Jelsma
Wildcard queries are not passed through an analyzer. > Ah, BTW, > > since the problem seems to be a query-parser-issue a simple workarround > could be done by simple replace all Umlauts with ASCII-Characters (ä = ae, > ö = oe, ü = ue for example) before sending the query to Solr and use a > solr.

Re: wildcards and German umlauts

2011-05-29 Thread mdz-munich
Ah, BTW, since the problem seems to be a query-parser-issue a simple workarround could be done by simple replace all Umlauts with ASCII-Characters (ä = ae, ö = oe, ü = ue for example) before sending the query to Solr and use a solr.MappingCharFilterFactory with the same replacements (ä = ae, ö = o

Re: wildcards and German umlauts

2011-05-29 Thread mdz-munich
Hi, "if i type complete word (such as "übersicht"). But there are no hits, if i use wildcards (such as "über*") Searching with wildcards and without umlauts works as well." I can confirm that. Greetz, Sebastian -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/wildcards-an

Re: wildcards and German umlauts

2009-07-16 Thread solenweg
Hi, I've got the same problem: searching using wildcards and umlaut -> no results. Just as you descriped it: "if i type complete word (such as "übersicht"). But there are no hits, if i use wildcards (such as "über*") Searching with wildcards and without umlauts works as well." Anyone found the

Re: wildcards and German umlauts

2008-01-15 Thread Daniel Naber
On Dienstag, 15. Januar 2008, Alexey Shakov wrote: > Index-searching works, if i type complete word (such as "übersicht"). > But there are no hits, if i use wildcards (such as "über*") > Searching with wildcards and without umlauts works as well. Maybe this describes your problem on the Lucene le