# Adding accent folding to English analyzer **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 6, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-accent-folding-to-english-analyzer/13092 "2013-08-06T18:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-accent-folding-to-english-analyzer/13092/1 "2013-08-06T18:49:00Z")
Right now I use the English analyzer for English text. If I wanted to enable accent folding would I have to recreate the whole analyzer like this: { 'type': 'custom', 'tokenizer': 'standard', 'filter': [ 'standard', 'english\_possessive', 'lowercase', 'stop', 'porter\_stem', 'icu\_folding' ] } Assuming that is what I have to do, it looks like english\_possessive filter is not something I can create via the api. Should I be doing something else? Nik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![jprante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jprante/32/44941_2.png) [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-accent-folding-to-english-analyzer/13092/2 "2013-08-06T19:13:26Z")
The filter's name is 'possessive\_english' See [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/908](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/908) Note, if you analyze english only, there is no need for ICU because there is a filter 'asciifolding' [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/asciifolding-tokenfilter/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/asciifolding-tokenfilter/) Jörg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![simonw\_2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simonw_2/32/1130_2.png) [@simonw\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simonw_2)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-accent-folding-to-english-analyzer/13092/3 "2013-08-06T19:18:45Z")
Yeah the english possessive filter seems not to be exposed. I willl create and issue and add it. simon On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:49:00 PM UTC+2, Nikolas Everett wrote: > Right now I use the English analyzer for English text. If I wanted to > enable accent folding would I have to recreate the whole analyzer like this: > { > 'type': 'custom', > 'tokenizer': 'standard', > 'filter': [ 'standard', 'english\_possessive', 'lowercase', > 'stop', 'porter\_stem', 'icu\_folding' ] > } > > Assuming that is what I have to do, it looks like english\_possessive > filter is not something I can create via the api. Should I be doing > something else? > > Nik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![simonw\_2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simonw_2/32/1130_2.png) [@simonw\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simonw_2)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-accent-folding-to-english-analyzer/13092/4 "2013-08-06T19:19:46Z")
nevermind Joerg is right! simon On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 9:18:45 PM UTC+2, simonw wrote: > Yeah the english possessive filter seems not to be exposed. I willl create > and issue and add it. > > simon > > On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:49:00 PM UTC+2, Nikolas Everett wrote: > > > Right now I use the English analyzer for English text. If I wanted to > > enable accent folding would I have to recreate the whole analyzer like this: > > { > > 'type': 'custom', > > 'tokenizer': 'standard', > > 'filter': [ 'standard', 'english\_possessive', > > 'lowercase', 'stop', 'porter\_stem', 'icu\_folding' ] > > } > > > > Assuming that is what I have to do, it looks like english\_possessive > > filter is not something I can create via the api. Should I be doing > > something else? > > > > Nik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-accent-folding-to-english-analyzer/13092/5 "2017-07-06T02:22:37Z")