Re: Why ASCIIFoldingFilter is not a CharFilter

[Erik Hatcher]

won't some stemmers leave diacritics in the terms that ought to be  
removed before indexing?

On Feb 21, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote:

Hello,

Looking over the CharFilter franchise, it seems to me that the
ASCIIFoldingFilter is a perfect candidate for being a CharFilter as it
performs character level substitutions like MappingCharFilter.  
However it is
not a CharFilter. Is there a reason why?

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Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.