On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Joel Nylund <jnyl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> update, I tried changing to datatype string, and it sorts the numerics > better, but the other sorts are not as good. > > Is there a way to control sorting for special chars, for example, I want > blanks to sort after letters and numbers. > > In the general case, CollationKeyFilterFactory will do the trick. You could create a custom rule set which sorts spaces after letters and numbers. See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UnicodeCollation > using alphaOnlySort - sorts nicely for alpha, but numbers dont work > string - sorts nicely for numbers and letters, but special chars like > blanks show up first in the list > > alphaOnlySort has a PatternReplaceFilterFactory which removes all characters except a-z. This is the reason behind those wierd results. You could try removing that filter and see if thats what you need. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
