Hi Doug,

> Also, I think we should lowercase prefix and wildcard queries by
> default.  This would fix one of the most frequently reported problems.
> Yes, it might also break folks who currently do case-sensitive
> wildcard queries, but I suspect they are far fewer than those who
> will continue to complain about the default case-sensitivity of
> wildcard searches. What do others think?

For the StandardAnalyzer this might work, but for the GermanAnalyzer, there
is also the problem with Umlauts (�,�,�) turned into vowels (a,o,u) while
indexing. An example: "H�user" is the plural of "Haus". If I index "H�user"
it is stemmed to "hau". If I do for example a search for "h�us*" nothing is
found, because "h�us" is not stemmed. If I would analyze "h�us*" I should
get "hau*". The problem is, that now you do not only get "H�user" but also
"Haus" as result. But I think it is better to get more results than no
result. This is perhaps a special problem with the GermanAnalyzer. May be
there could be an option to use the Analyzer also for wildcard queries. So I
can turn it on in my case and defaults to off.
Hope you understand my problem ;)

Regards
Christoph

ps: Lucene otherwise really rocks ;)




---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to