Character conversion is done via an ASCIIFoldingFilter in Lucene:
Not sure if it supports Cyrillic. Since it is a Lucene supplied filter, you
can read its documentation as well:
http://lucidworks.lucidimagination.com/display/solr/Filter+Descriptions#FilterDescriptions-ASCIIFoldingFilter
There is also an phonetic filter which is provided as a plugin:
Never used it, so I do not know how it differs from existing Lucene
phonetic filters such as
http://lucidworks.lucidimagination.com/display/solr/Phonetic+Matching
Cheers,
Ivan
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Haensel thehaensel@gmail.com wrote:
names should be searchable via a phonetic searc
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