Thanks very much for the reply. We are querying solr directly from browser: http://localhost:8080/solr/select?q=12\:34&defType=edismax&debug=query&qf=content
<str name="rawquerystring">12\:34</str> <str name="querystring">12\:34</str> <str name="parsedquery">(+12\:34)/no_coord</str> <str name="parsedquery_toString">+12\:34</str> <str name="QParser">ExtendedDismaxQParser</str> And seems this is not related with which (default) field I use to query. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/The-way-edismax-parses-colon-seems-weird-tp4079226p4079234.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.