Hi,
We use a solution where we have our own implementation similar to
ASCIIFoldingFilter for German language specific characters (and also
French and Dutch).

Wouter

> Hello,
>
> I have two questin regarding handling German umlauts in Lucene:
>
> 1. I'm trying to find a way to convert German Umlauts written as 'ue',
> 'ae', etc to folded form 'u', 'a' and so on.
> This is done by GermanAnalyzer (and German2StemFilter used by it), but
> unfortunately it also does stemming which is very undesired in my case.
> Is there any other filter that can do only the 'ua' -> 'u' conversion?
>
> 2. Is there any filter that does 'ü' -> 'ue' (NOT 'u') conversion? What
> I'm trying to achieve is that word "über" should be found in the index
> whenever the user searches for " über" or "ueber" , but NOT "uber".
>
> Regards,
> AD
>
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