Hi Uwe, On 05/26/2008 at 8:43 AM, Uwe Klosa wrote: > We're using Solr 1.3 in our application and we have an index > that contains 3 different languages which are stored and > indexed in fields like 'title_sv', 'title_en', 'title_no'. > > Our problem in this case is we want to sort the search > results according to the different rules for each language. > If we have 'sort=title_sv asc' we want that the Swedish > rules are used. Is there a standard way to achieve this?
Although the underlying Lucene Sort facility supports Locale-based field sorting[1], Solr does not expose this functionality. I think Solr should support syntax like "sort=title_sv asc locale:sv", minimally including the language, but possibly also the country component of the locale, e.g. "sort=title_de asc locale:de_CH" for Swiss German. Steve [1] http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_3_2/api/org/apache/lucene/search/SortField.html#SortField(java.lang.String,%20java.util.Locale)
