Ahh, that's it - I thought of such a thing but couldn't find a proper affirmation with Google.
Thank you both for your answers. I guess I will just sort by value length myself. Only one thing: Erick said my examples would both be one token long. But I rather think, there are both one "value" long but three and four tokens long, as the NGramAnalyzer splits the values in smaller tokens. And as it can be seen from the link given by Ahmet, field lengths of three and four are not distinguished - where the reason for my observation lies. Thanks again and best regards, Erik On 24.03.2012, at 00:02, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Also, the field length is enocded in a byte (as I remember). >> So it's >> quite possible that, >> even if the lengths of these fields were 3 and 4 instead of >> both being >> 1, the value >> stored for the length norms would be the same number. > > Exactly. http://search-lucene.com/m/uGKRu1pvRjw >
