> I'm trying to find the best way to set up a fieldType that > strips punctuation.
Use solr.StandardTokenizerFactory that strips punctuations. Or if you do not care about alphanumeric or numeric queries use solr.LowerCaseTokenizerFactory that uses LetterTokenizer. I think the right way to do this is using a > CharacterFilter > of some type, but I can't seem to find any examples of how > to set this > up in a schema.xml file. If you want to use solr.MappingCharFilterFactory you need to write all punctiation characters to a text file manually. e.g. "," => ""