: Any idea why solr is unable to return the pound sign as-is? : : I tried typing in £ 1 million in Solr admin GUI and got following response. ... : <str name="q">£ 1 million</str> ... : Here is my Java Properties I got also from admin interface: ... : catalina.home = : /home/rbhagdev/SCCRepos/SCC_Platform/search/solr/target/
Looks like you are using tomcat, so I suspect you are getting bit by this... https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat#URI_Charset_Config If that's not the problem, please try running the example/exampledocs/test_utf8.sh script against your Solr instance (you'll need to change the URL variable to match your host:port) -Hoss