# Strange stemmer behavior on accents

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-stemmer-behavior-on-accents/6147>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 13, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-stemmer-behavior-on-accents/6147 "2011-12-13T18:27:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Pascal\_Pensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@Pascal\_Pensa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pascal_Pensa)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-stemmer-behavior-on-accents/6147/1 "2011-12-13T18:27:37Z")

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Hi,

I found strange results using french stemmer :

été & l'été =\> accents removed for "l'et" not "été"

télé & télévision =\> accents removed for "tel" not for "télévis"

conf is really simple:

index :  
analysis :  
analyzer :  
myAnalyzer :  
type : custom  
tokenizer : standard  
filter : [myFrenchStemmer]  
myFrenchStemmer :  
type : stemmer  
language : french

curl -XGET "[http://localhost:9200/test/\_analyze](http://localhost:9200/test/_analyze)?  
analyzer=myAnalyzer&pretty=true"-d "l'été été télé télévision"

{  
"tokens" : [ {  
"token" : "l'et",  
"start\_offset" : 0,  
"end\_offset" : 5,  
"type" : "",  
"position" : 1  
}, {  
"token" : "été",  
"start\_offset" : 6,  
"end\_offset" : 9,  
"type" : "",  
"position" : 2  
}, {  
"token" : "tel",  
"start\_offset" : 10,  
"end\_offset" : 14,  
"type" : "",  
"position" : 3  
}, {  
"token" : "télévis",  
"start\_offset" : 15,  
"end\_offset" : 25,  
"type" : "",  
"position" : 4  
} ]  
}

Pascal

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-stemmer-behavior-on-accents/6147/2 "2017-07-06T03:45:32Z")

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