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Steven Rowe commented on LUCENE-2019:
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Lucene indexes can be used both process-internally and across processes (e.g.
Solr).
This patch enforces the Lucene-index-as-process-external view, and excludes the
possiblity that a Lucene index is used process-internally.
Since Lucene itself uses U+FFFF internally, no clients can use it for their own
purposes. This patch rationalizes handling of internal-use-only characters,
such that Lucene's behavior is made consistent for all of them.
Instituting this consistency precludes Lucene-index-as-process-internal use
cases. I would argue that the price of consistency is in this case too high.
My vote: document the crap out of the U+FFFF Lucene-internal-use character and
drop this patch.
If people want to use internal-use-only characters in Lucene indexes, as long
as Lucene doesn't reserve them for its own use, why stop them?
> map unicode process-internal codepoints to replacement character
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> Key: LUCENE-2019
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2019
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Index
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: LUCENE-2019.patch
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> A spinoff from LUCENE-2016.
> There are several process-internal codepoints in unicode, we should not store
> these in the index.
> Instead they should be mapped to replacement character (U+FFFD), so they can
> be used process-internally.
> An example of this is how Lucene Java currently uses U+FFFF
> process-internally, it can't be in the index or will cause problems.
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