It seems that Solr's query parser doesn't pass a single term query to the Analyzer for the field. For example, if I give it 2001年 (year 2001 in Japanese), the searcher returns 0 hits but if I quote them with double-quotes, it returns hits. In this experiment, I configured schema.xml so that the field in question will use the morphological Analyzer my company makes that is capable of splitting 2001年 into two tokens 2001 and 年. I am guessing that this Analyzer is called ONLY IF the term is a phrase. Is my observation correct?
If so, is there any configuration parameter that I can tweak to force any query for the text fields be processed by the Analyzer? One might ask why users won't put space between 2001 and 年. Well if they are clearly two separate words, people do that. But 年 works more like a suffix in this case, and in many Japanese speaker's mind, 2001年 seems like one token, so many people won't. (Remember Japanese don't use spaces in normal writing.) Forcing to use Analyzer would also be useful for compound word handling often desirable for languages like German. ---- Teruhiko "Kuro" Kurosaka RLP + Lucene & Solr = powerful search for global contents
