You might want to take a look at using the ISOLatinAccentFilter or similar at both index and query time. It basically folds accented characters into their un-accented form.
Matthew: You wrote: <<<so I would suggest adding a second stored, but unindexed field that stores the original value >>> I also did this before realizing that the second field is unnecessary. Storing is orthogonal to indexing. That is, the filters are NOT applied to the stored data. >From the docs for Field.Store.YES (emphasis mine) <<<Store the original field value in the index. This is useful for short texts like a document's title which should be displayed with the results. The value is stored in its original form, *i.e. no analyzer is used before it is stored*.>>> I don't think it makes much/any real performance difference, but it does make the code simpler to use just one field... Best Erick On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:52 AM, legrand thomas <thomaslegran...@yahoo.fr>wrote: > Dear all, > > I'd like my lucene searches to be insensitive to (French) accents. For > example, considering a indexed term "métal", I want to get it when searching > for "metal" or "métal" . I use lucene-2.3.2 and the searches are performed > with: IndexSearcher.search(query,filter,sorter), Another filter is already > used together with a "Sort" object. Futrhermore, I cannot use the > FrenchAnalyzer as my index does not only contain French words. > > Can anybody help ? > Thanks in advance, > Tom > > > >
