Hi, When user entered text contains special character, can this being taken care by the tokenizer/filter configured at the field?
In application code, Do i need to parse the user input string and add the escape in front of those special character? If so, will those special characters differ for different language, such as english versus chinese? As of now, I didn't parse those special character. i am getting this inconsistent/strange behavior/error. For example: 1. search: title_name_en_US:(my! god) solr thinks the second term "god" is something NOT to include, why is that? <lst name="debug"> <str name="rawquerystring">title_name_en_US:(my! god)</str> <str name="querystring">title_name_en_US:(my! god)</str> <str name="parsedquery">title_name_en_US:my -title_name_en_US:god</str> <str name="parsedquery_toString">title_name_en_US:my -title_name_en_US:god</str> 2. search: title_name_en_US:my! solr return error instead, even worse: --> INFO: [titles] webapp=/solr path=/select params={explainOther=&fl=*,score&debugQ uery=on&indent=on&start=0&q=title_name_en_US:(Oh!)&hl.fl=&qt=standard&wt=standar d&fq=&rows=10&version=2.2} status=400 QTime=0 May 7, 2011 2:13:48 AM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: org.apache.lucene.queryParser.Pars eException: Cannot parse 'title_name_en_US:Oh!': Encountered "<EOF>" at line 1, column 20. Was expecting one of: "(" ... "*" ... <QUOTED> ... <TERM> ... <PREFIXTERM> ... <WILDTERM> ... "[" ... "{" ... <NUMBER> ... <TERM> ... "*" ... at org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.prepare(QueryCompone nt.java:108) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(Sea rchHandler.java:181) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandl erBase.java:131) Caused by: org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Cannot parse 'title_nam e_en_US:my!': Encountered "<EOF>" at line 1, column 20. Was expecting one of: "(" ... "*" ... <QUOTED> ... <TERM> ... <PREFIXTERM> ... <WILDTERM> ... "[" ... "{" ... <NUMBER> ... <TERM> ... "*" ... at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.parse(QueryParser.java:205) -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Why-special-character-is-handled-differently-by-standard-lucene-query-parser-tp2910692p2910692.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.