: Thanks Hoss for your comments! I don't mind submitting it as a patch, : shall I create a issue in Jira and submit the patch with that? Also, I
yep, just attach the patch file. : didn't modify the core solr for locale based sorting; I just added the : created a jar file with the class file & copied it over to the lib : folder. As part of the patch, shall I add it to the core solr code-base : (users who want to use this don't need anything extra to do) or add it : as a contrib field (they need to compile it as jar and copy it over to : the lib folder)? go ahead and attach what you've got (Yonik's Law of patches) but i'm guessing it would probably make sense if these changes ultimately became part of the core StrField ... there shouldn't be any down side (as long as it doesn't adversely affect the performance for people that don't want to use hte feature) : http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute -Hoss
