In 1.3 search is delegated to Solr. It can happily search (or ignore) `special` chars.
> I downloaded and played around a bit with 1.3 but I don't really have > anything invested in it (so if this is easier using another version, I > would gladly use that instead). > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Markus Jelsma > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > What version of Nutch are you using? > > > > > Hi, > > > On your the wiki (here: https://wiki.apache.org/nutch/Features ) it > > > says that special characters and punctuation are treated as spaces, > > > but it > > > > does > > > > > not say where in the code this is or how to configure it. How can I > > > configure nutch not to ignore special characters?

