Hi Shalin, strangely, things still aren't working. I've set the JAVA_OPTS through either the GUI or to startup.bat, but absolutely no impact. Have tried reindexing also, but still no impact - results such as -
“My Universe is Here� bern -----Original Message----- From: Shalin Shekhar Mangar [mailto:shalinman...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 26 August 2009 5:50 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: encoding problem On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Bernadette Houghton < bernadette.hough...@deakin.edu.au> wrote: > Thanks for your quick reply, Shalin. > > Tomcat is running on my Windows machine, but does not appear in Windows > Services (as I was expecting it should ... am I wrong?). I'm running it from > a startup.bat on my desktop - see below. Do I add the Dfile line to the > startup.bat? > > SOLR is part of the repository software that we are running. > Tomcat respects an environment variable called JAVA_OPTS through which you can pass any jvm argument (e.g. heap size, file encoding). Set JAVA_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" either through the GUI or by adding the following to startup.bat: set JAVA_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.