Thanks, That worked like a charm. Should've thought about that :)
/ Carl ________________________________________ From: Robert Muir [rcm...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 April 2012 18:21 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Special characters in synonyms.txt on Solr 3.5 On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:10 PM, carl.nordenf...@bwinparty.com <carl.nordenf...@bwinparty.com> wrote: > Directly injecting the letter "ö" into synonyms like so: > island, ön > island, "ön" > > renders the following exception on startup (both lines renders the same > error): > > java.lang.RuntimeException: java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input > length = 3 > at > org.apache.solr.analysis.FSTSynonymFilterFactory.inform(FSTSynonymFilterFactory.java:92) > at > org.apache.solr.analysis.SynonymFilterFactory.inform(SynonymFilterFactory.java:50) Synonyms file needs to be in UTF-8 encoding. -- lucidimagination.com