No folding doesn't apply to punctuation, only a set of accents, circumflex, etc. It essentially just removes all of the diacritics and "folds" the letters into their unaccented counterparts....
Best Erick On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 2/28/2013 5:39 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: > >> ICUFoldingFilterFactory is "folding" the backtick (grave accent). >> >> See admin/analysis page, it's a lifesaver in these situations! >> > > Is this the way it's supposed to behave? From what I could tell in my > look at the analysis page, it is folding the backtick into nothing. It > happens on both 3.5.0 and 4.2-SNAPSHOT. > > The filter doesn't seem to have this behavior with any of the "regular" > punctuation that I have tested. I use the ICUFoldingFilterFactory in my > schema for most of my fields. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >