# Ignore gracefully a specific character

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-gracefully-a-specific-character/210920>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 6, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-gracefully-a-specific-character/210920 "2019-12-06T16:48:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rschirin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rschirin/32/45283_2.png) [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-gracefully-a-specific-character/210920/1 "2019-12-06T16:48:38Z")

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hi guys,  
I was playing with the predefined index `kibana_sample_data_ecommerce`.  
In the field `category` I can find some not standard character, for instance apostrophe.  
Is there a way to ignore it (so, a query on values "Womens" and "Women's" should give the same number of hits)?

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-gracefully-a-specific-character/210920/2 "2019-12-09T14:02:44Z")

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This is where the interesting parts of full-text search are starting. You may want to take a look at stemming tokenizers and delimiter token filters. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/analysis-tokenfilters.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/analysis-tokenfilters.html)

I highly recommend to take a step back and take some time to read about how the whole process of analysis works before playing around with this.

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**Author:** ![rschirin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rschirin/32/45283_2.png) [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-gracefully-a-specific-character/210920/3 "2019-12-10T08:34:20Z")

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hi @spinscale, I'm really scared about your link but I will try to take a deep dive into it 🙂

thanks for the moment

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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:** [January 7, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-gracefully-a-specific-character/210920/4 "2020-01-07T08:34:21Z")

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