: writer, I notice a space at the end. I can fix this issue by triming all my : values before sening them to solr :-)
The built in Field Faceting works on the indexed values, so Solr can solve this for you if you use something like this for your facet field type... <fieldType name="facetString" class="solr.TextField" omitNorms="true"> <analyzer> <!-- KeywordTokenizer does no actual tokenizing, so the entire input string is preserved as a single token --> <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/> <!-- The LowerCase TokenFilter does what you expect, which can be when you want your sorting to be case insensitive --> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" /> <!-- The TrimFilter removes any leading or trailing whitespace --> <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" /> </analyzer> </fieldType> -Hoss