I found what I was doing wrong. The XML document that I was posting didn't have the char encoding info, due to which the solr was ignoring the special chars.
Thanks, Kalyan Manepalli -----Original Message----- From: Manepalli, Kalyan [mailto:kalyan.manepa...@orbitz.com] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 3:31 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Unable to Search German text Hi All, I am facing an issue while adding multi language support in the Solr. Here is what I am doing. 1) have a field of type text_de which has analyzer as snowballporterFilterFactory with German2 as language 2) copy the german locationName into this field at the index time. 3) I can see that german text is converted into its corresponding English text, but still it doesn't return the doc when searched Example: Add a document with locationName as "Köln" into the field text_de. When I run the analyzer on this field it display "Köln" converted into "koln". But when I search for "koln" I don't get any results. Any suggestions on this will be very helpful Thanks, Kalyan Manepalli