Isn't it better to have specially prepared sort fields? Like
lowercased, if you want case-insensitive comparisons, or stripped of
whitespace and punctuation, like I did once.
That way you have more flexibility and also don't kill performance outright.

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:58, Federica Falini Data Management S.p.A
<ffal...@datamanagement.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> in Lucene 2.4.1 (as such in Lucene 2.2) the term enumeration is sorted
> case-sensitive: first capital and then small;
> For example,  this sort on TermEnum is wrong for human consumption:
>
> Annales
> Cafè
> Zucche
> cafe
>
> this is the correct sort in this case :
>
> Annales
> cafe
> Cafè
> Zucche
>
> In Lucene 2.2 i have made modification on Term.java, TermBuffer.java
> (see below)  in order to have  Term enumerations sorted case-insensitive:
>
> TermEnum terms = reader.terms(new Term("myFieldNotTokenized", ""));
>       while ("myFieldNotTokenized".equals(terms.term().field())) {
>         System.out.println( "     " + terms.term());
>         if (!terms.next()) break;
>   }
>
>
> Now in Lucene 2.4 i find it difficult because the package "index" is
> changed a lot; can i have some indications to keep my sort?
> Thanks in advance
> Federica
>
> Here below the modified class on Lucene 2.2
>
> Term.java:
>  package org.apache.lucene.index;
>
>  import java.text.CollationKey;
>
>  /**
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>   * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
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>   *
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>   * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
>   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
>   * limitations under the License.
>   */
>
>  /**
>    A Term represents a word from text.  This is the unit of search.  It is
>    composed of two elements, the text of the word, as a string, and the name
>  of
>    the field that the text occured in, an interned string.
>
>    Note that terms may represent more than words from text fields, but also
>    things like dates, email addresses, urls, etc.  */
>
>  public final class Term implements Comparable, java.io.Serializable {
>    String field;
>    String text;
>    transient CollationKey ckText;
>
>    /** Constructs a Term with the given field and text.
>     * <p>Note that a null field or null text value results in undefined
>     * behavior for most Lucene APIs that accept a Term parameter. */
>    public Term(String fld, String txt) {
>
>      this(fld, txt, true);
>    }
>    Term(String fld, String txt, boolean intern) {
>      field = intern ? fld.intern() : fld;      // field names are interned
>      text = txt;                      // unless already known to be
>      ckText = OpacCollator.getInstancePool().getCollationKey(text);
>
>    }
>
>    /** Returns the field of this term, an interned string.   The field
>  indicates
>      the part of a document which this term came from. */
>    public final String field() { return field; }
>
>    /** Returns the text of this term.  In the case of words, this is simply
>  the
>      text of the word.  In the case of dates and other types, this is an
>      encoding of the object as a string.  */
>    public final String text() { return text; }
>
>    /**
>     * Optimized construction of new Terms by reusing same field as this Term
>     * - avoids field.intern() overhead
>     * @param text The text of the new term (field is implicitly same as this
>  Term instance)
>     * @return A new Term
>     */
>    public Term createTerm(String text)
>    {
>        return new Term(field,text,false);
>    }
>
>    /** Compares two terms, returning true iff they have the same
>        field and text. */
>    public final boolean equals(Object o) {
>      if (o == this)
>        return true;
>      if (o == null)
>        return false;
>      if (!(o instanceof Term))
>        return false;
>      Term other = (Term)o;
>      //return field == other.field && text.equals(other.text);
>      return field == other.field && text.equalsIgnoreCase(other.text);
>    }
>
>    /** Combines the hashCode() of the field and the text. */
>    public final int hashCode() {
>      return field.hashCode() + text.hashCode();
>    }
>
>    public int compareTo(Object other) {
>      return compareTo((Term)other);
>    }
>
>    /** Compares two terms, returning a negative integer if this
>      term belongs before the argument, zero if this term is equal to the
>      argument, and a positive integer if this term belongs after the
>  argument.
>
>      The ordering of terms is first by field, then by text.*/
>  //  public final int compareTo(Term other) {
>  //    if (field == other.field)              // fields are interned
>  //      return text.compareTo(other.text);
>  //    else
>  //      return field.compareTo(other.field);
>  //  }
>    public final int compareTo(Term other) {
>
>        if (field == other.field) { // fields are interned
>            return  ckText.compareTo(other.ckText);
>        } else {
>            return field.compareToIgnoreCase(other.field);
>        }
>    }
>
>    /** Resets the field and text of a Term. */
>    final void set(String fld, String txt) {
>      field = fld;
>      text = txt;
>      ckText = OpacCollator.getInstancePool().getCollationKey(text);
>    }
>
>    public final String toString() { return field + ":" + text; }
>
>    private void readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream in)
>      throws java.io.IOException, ClassNotFoundException
>    {
>        in.defaultReadObject();
>        field = field.intern();
>        ckText = OpacCollator.getInstancePool().getCollationKey(text);
>    }
>
>
>  }
>
>
>  TermBuffer.java:
>  public final int compareTo(TermBuffer other) {
>      if (field == other.field)    {          // fields are interned
>        return compareChars(text, textLength, other.text, other.textLength);
>      }
>      else {
>        return field.compareTo(other.field);
>
>      }
>    }
>
>  private static final int compareChars(char[] v1, int len1,
>                                           char[] v2, int len2) {
>      String v1s = new String(v1,0,len1);
>      String v2s = new String(v2,0,len2);
>      OpacCollator oc = OpacCollator.getInstancePool();
>      CollationKey v1k  = oc.getCollationKey(v1s);
>      CollationKey v2k  = oc.getCollationKey(v2s);
>      return v1k.compareTo(v2k);
>    }
>
>  OpacCollator.java
>  package org.apache.lucene.index;
>
>  import java.text.CollationKey;
>  import java.text.Collator;
>  import java.text.ParseException;
>  import java.text.RuleBasedCollator;
>  import java.util.BitSet;
>  import java.util.Locale;
>
>  import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
>
>  /**
>   * Collator che considera lo spazio '\u0020' come primo carattere
>  dell'ordinamento.L'underscore
>   * sembra essere il primo di tutti
>   */
>  public class OpacCollator extends RuleBasedCollator {
>    /**
>     * logger
>     */
>    private static Logger log =
>    Logger.getLogger(OpacCollator.class.getName());
>    private static String spacesRules = null;
>    /** progressivo identificativo oggetto */
>    // private static int seqIdPool = 0;
>    /** identificativo dell'oggetto */
>    private int id = 0;
>
>    private final static int POOL =
>    Integer.parseInt(System.getProperty("sebina.opac.collatorpool", "256"));
>    private final static OpacCollator[] collatorPool = new
> OpacCollator[POOL];
>
>    private static BitSet bs = new BitSet(POOL);
>    // private static int cntPool = 0;
>    static {
>      RuleBasedCollator it_ITcollator = (RuleBasedCollator)
> Collator.getInstance(new Locale("it", "IT"));
>
>      spacesRules = it_ITcollator.getRules().replaceAll("='\t'=", "=");
>      spacesRules = spacesRules.replaceAll(";'\t' ;", ";");
>
>      spacesRules = spacesRules.replaceAll("<'_'", "<'\t'<'\u0020'<'_'");
>
>      for (int i = 0; i < POOL; i++) {
>        try {
>          collatorPool[i] = new OpacCollator(i);
>          bs.set(i);
>        } catch (ParseException e) {
>          log.fatal("Rules:" + it_ITcollator.getRules(), e);
>          break;
>        }
>      }
>
>    }
>
>    public static synchronized OpacCollator getInstancePool() {
>      int pos = -1;
>      while (pos < 0) {
>        pos = bs.nextSetBit(0);
>      }
>      bs.clear(pos);
>      return collatorPool[pos];
>    }
>
>    /**
>     * Constructor for OpacCollator.
>     *
>     * @throws ParseException
>     */
>    private OpacCollator() throws ParseException {
>      super(spacesRules);
>      this.setStrength(Collator.PRIMARY);
>    }
>
>    /**
>     * Constructor for OpacCollator.
>     *
>     * @param id
>     * @throws ParseException
>     */
>    public OpacCollator(int ident) throws ParseException {
>      this();
>      this.id = ident;
>    }
>
>    /**
>     * @see java.text.Collator#getCollationKey(String)
>     */
>    public CollationKey getCollationKey(String arg0) {
>      CollationKey ck = super.getCollationKey(arg0);
>      bs.set(this.id);
>      return ck;
>    }
>  }
>
> --
>
>
> Federica FALINI
> Divisione Beni Culturali
>
>
>
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