Thanks Jack for your help! I found my mistake, rather than classifying those special characters as ALPHA , I classified it as a DIGIT. Also I missed the same entry for search analyzer. So probably that was the reason for not getting relevant results.
I spent a lot of time figuring this out. So I'll paste my code snippet of schema.xml which was changed for newbies so that they dont waste so much time in this. I classified my field as text in which I wanted to search for keywords including special characters. In fieldType definition modify the filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1" preserveOriginal="1" types="characters.txt" /> in BOTH <analyzer type="index"> and <analyzer type="query"> And make a new characters.txt in the same folder as schema.xml and add the content : $ => ALPHA % => ALPHA (i wanted $ and % to behave as alphabets so that they could be searched) Then restart jetty/tomcat This is how i solved this problem. Hope this would help someone :) -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/index-special-characters-solr-tp3987157p3987891.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
