I think you're using PHP to request solr.
You can ask solr to respond in several different formats (xml, json,
php, ...), see http://wiki.apache.org/solr/QueryResponseWriter .
Depending on how you connect to solr from php, you may want to use
html_entity_decode before using mb_substr.
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Ta
I am running solr 3.5 with a mysql data connector. Solr is configured to
use UTF8 as encoding:
unfortunatelly solr does encode special characters like "ä" into
htmlentities:
ä
which leads to problems when cutting strings with php mb_substr(..)
How can I configure solr to deliver UTF-8 instea