A colleague stumbled upon this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/361975/setting-the-default-java-character-encoding
The second answer, environment variable JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS did the job. JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS : -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 Happy stop-wording ! -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Russian-stopwords-tp491490p4065976.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.