: The way that I've solved this in the past is to make a field
: specifically for sorting and then truncate the string to a small number
: of characters and sort on that. You have to accept that in some cases
Something to consider is the ICUCollationKeyFilterFactory. As noted on
the wiki...
This filter works like ?CollationKeyFilterFactory, except it uses ICU
for collation. This makes smaller and faster sort keys, ...
https://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.ICUCollationKeyFilterFactory
-Hoss
