> The value in the srcANYSTRStrCI field > is "miXCAse or LowER" according to Luke.
Can you try this fieldType (that uses class="solr.TextField") declaration and re-start tomcat & re-index: <fieldType name="string_ci" class="solr.TextField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"> <analyzer> <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" /> <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" /> </analyzer> </fieldType>