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Oliver Christ commented on LUCENE-4518:
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I don't see how this can easily be addressed in the UI. 

Go to http://www.google.de and enter "praefi" as the query. The top two 
completions are

präfi*x*
präfi*nal*

Note that in both cases the prefix "präfi" is recognized although the query is 
"praefi".

To handle this in the UI, the UI layer would have to duplicate the Analyzer's 
logic about case and diacritics folding.  

I agree that in general, this may not be possible at all, but in simpler cases 
(case folding, diacritics insensitivity) I should think it's feasible (but hard 
on the UI level).
                
> Suggesters: highlighting (explicit markup of user-typed portions vs. 
> generated portions in a suggestion)
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-4518
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4518
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Oliver Christ
>
> As a user, I would like the lookup result of the suggestion engine to contain 
> information which allows me to distinguish the user-entered portion from the 
> autocompleted portion of a suggestion. That information can then be used for 
> e.g. highlighting. 
> *Notes:*
> It's trivial if the suggestion engine only applies simple prefix search, as 
> then the user-typed prefix is always a true prefix of the completion. 
> However, it's non-trivial as soon as you use an AnalyzingSuggester, where the 
> completion may (in extreme cases) be quite different from the user-provided 
> input. As soon as case/diacritics folding, script adaptation (kanji/hiragana) 
> come into play, the completion is no longer guaranteed to be an extension of 
> the query. Since the caller of the suggestion engine (UI) generally does not 
> know the implementation details, the required information needs to be passed 
> in the LookupResult.
> *Discussion on java-user:*
> > I haven't found a simple solution for the highlighting yet,
> > particularly when using AnalyzingSuggester (where it's non-trivial).
> Mike McCandless:
> Ahh I see ... it is challenging in that case.  Hmm.  Maybe open an issue for 
> this as well, so we can discuss/iterate?

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