Take a look at the MappingCharFilterFactory (in Solr 1.4) and/or the ISOLatin1AccentFilterFactory.
: Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:30:08 +0200 : From: "[ISO-8859-1] Gy�rgy Frivolt" <gyorgy.friv...@gmail.com> : Reply-To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org : To: solr-user <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> : Subject: Searching with or without diacritics : : Hello, : : I started to use solr only recently using the ruby/rails sunspot-solr : client. I use solr on a slovak/czech data set and realized one not wanted : behaviour of the search. When the user searches an expression or word which : contains dicritics, letters like š, č, ť, ä, ô,... usually the special : characters are omitted in the search query. In this case solr does not : return records which contain the expression intended to be found by the : user. : How can I configure solr in a way, that it founds records containing : special characters, even if they are without special accents in the query? : : Some info about my solr instance: Solr Specification Version: 1.3.0Solr : Implementation Version: 1.3.0 694707 - grantingersoll - 2008-09-12 : 11:06:47Lucene Specification Version: 2.4-devLucene Implementation Version: : 2.4-dev 691741 - 2008-09-03 15:25:16 : : Thank for your help, regards, : : Georg : -Hoss