Question

I am new in SOLR. I have a problem. I put data into SOLR via xml, data in German, for example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<add>
<doc>
  <field name="id">1</field>
  <field name="name">Größen helfen, ihr Potenzial voll zu entfalten. Sicherheit und Zuverlässigkeit, Innovation und Integration sowie</field>
</doc>
</add>

This document saved successfully, when I search from admin panel with query “name:*” it returns, but when I try to search with this query “name:*uverlässigkeit*” it does not returns.
I think this is problem with German language, but I don`t know how to fix this problem. Could anybody to help me understand what is wrong.

Answer 1

You can’t perform searches starting with a wildcard – only postfix wildcards are allowed in a search query (as it would otherwise have to scan all the terms associated with a document). If you need to perform a search on a prefix, index the term reversed (but be aware that this might throw other functionality off if you use your fields without giving much thought about what you’re searching) and the search against that field with a postfix wildcard.

Also be aware that your application container (i.e. Jetty, Tomcat, etc.) will have to be UTF-8 aware (for Tomcat you’ll have to configure this specifically) for a search against UTF-8 strings to work properly.