Thanks for the guidance. I have a reasonable "middle ground" blend of client-side and server side tweaks working now. In solr I copied my field into a duplicate field sans folding filters, so that I essentially have "myfield_raw" and "myfield_analyzed". Then on the client side include both these fields in my facet query. Then finally I prefer results from myfield_analyzed when they exist, and fallback to the myfield_raw results when the analyzed one turns up empty, which is what happens when foreign characters are in the facet.prefix.
So I still get all my results in a single solr call. Capitalization is lost, all results are lowercased (I kept the lowercase analyzer in the raw) but that's ok for my needs. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/international-characters-in-facet-prefix-tp4339415p4339877.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
