Re: How to search for europian word with and without special characters

2006-06-20 Thread Chris Hostetter
take a look at the ISOLatin1AccentFilter .. it doesn't seem to do exactly what you want (replacing "ü" with "ue" .. it just uses "u") but it should give you an idea of what you can do. There was also a discussion recently about how you can use a modified version of this Filter at index time to ge

Re: How to search for europian word with and without special characters

2006-06-20 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
I think you'll want to write your own Analyzer + Tokenizer, detect tokens with umlauts, and then emit two tokens at the same position (think of them as synonyms), one being the original one with the umlaut, and the other one with the umlaut transformed according to the rules (e.g. ü -> ue). Hm,

RE: How to search for europian word with and without special characters

2006-06-20 Thread Mile Rosu
Hello Supriya, One possibility would be to search for both müller and mueller from the interface. It means you should "normalize" in some way the search query you are doing. This solution would not affect the content of the existing index (no reindexing needed). Greets, Mile -Original Mes