# Elastic lowercases first letter of a character using

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-lowercases-first-letter-of-a-character-using/79593>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 22, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-lowercases-first-letter-of-a-character-using/79593 "2017-03-22T13:44:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grigorios\_Loukidis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@Grigorios\_Loukidis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Grigorios_Loukidis)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-lowercases-first-letter-of-a-character-using/79593/1 "2017-03-22T13:44:16Z")

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I would like to ask why elastic lowercases first character in a field when I add it to an index.  
for example SERVICE\_ID is indexed as sERVICE\_ID etc.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-lowercases-first-letter-of-a-character-using/79593/2 "2017-04-19T13:45:03Z")

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