look for filters that use the ICU4J library On 11/19/2012 2:08 AM, Lutz Fechner wrote: > Hi, > > we use a modified ISOLatin1AccentFilter bit to replace German accents by ae, oe, ue and so on for that purpose. > > In the code you will see a switch for the characters. > > > You need to change it from > > case '\u00E4' : // small ä > output[outputPos++] = 'a'; > output[outputPos++] = 'e'; > break; > > To something like this > > case '\u00E4' : // small ä > output[outputPos++] = 'a'; > break; > > for the characters you want to replace. > > > Best Regards > > Lutz Fechner > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dyga, Adam [mailto:adam.dyga@beumergroup.com] > Sent: Montag, 19. November 2012 10:47 > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: German 'ue' -> 'u' conversion > > Hello, > > I have two questin regarding handling German umlauts in Lucene: > > 1. I'm trying to find a way to convert German Umlauts written as 'ue', 'ae', etc to folded form 'u', 'a' and so on. > This is done by GermanAnalyzer (and German2StemFilter used by it), but unfortunately it also does stemming which is very undesired in my case. > Is there any other filter that can do only the 'ua' -> 'u' conversion? > > 2. Is there any filter that does 'ü' -> 'ue' (NOT 'u') conversion? What I'm trying to achieve is that word "über" should be found in the index whenever the user searches for " über" or "ueber" , but NOT "uber". > > Regards, > AD > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscribe@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-help@lucene.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscribe@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-help@lucene.apache.org > > -- Igal Sapir Railo - Open Source CFML Engine http://getrailo.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscribe@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-help@lucene.apache.org