Re: Solved! Solr interprets UTF-8 as ISO-8859-1

[Daniel Löfquist <da...@it.cdon.com>]

That did the trick. I actually figured it out on my own 10 minutes after 
I posted to the mailinglist. Typical ;-)
Thanks for the help anyway everybody!

//Daniel

Uwe Klosa wrote:
> You should set uriEncoding="UTF-8" in your application server. For tomcat
> you can do that in the server.xml. For Glassfish you have to create a
> sun-web.xml containing the according parameters. Yoy r application server
> should provide a similar mechanism.
> 
> Uwe
> 
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Daniel Löfquist <
> daniel.lofquist@it.cdon.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> We're building a webapplication that uses Solr for searching and I've
>> come upon a problem that I can't seem to get my head around.
>>
>> We have a servlet that accepts input via XML-RPC and based on that input
>> constructs the correct URL to perform a search with the Solr-servlet.
>>
>> I know that the call to Solr (the URL) from our servlet looks like this
>> (which is what it should look like):
>>
>> http://myserver:8080/solrproducts/select/?q=all_SV:ljusbl
>> å+status:online&fl=id%2Cartno%2Ctitle_SV%2CtitleSort_SV%2Cdescription_SV%2C&sort=titleSort_SV+asc,id+asc&start=0&q.op=AND&rows=25
>>
>> But Solr reports the input-fields (the GET-variables in the URL) as:
>>
>> INFO: /select/
>>
>> fl=id,artno,title_SV,titleSort_SV,description_SV,&sort=titleSort_SV+asc,id+asc&start=0&q=all_SV:ljusblå+status:online&q.op=AND&rows=25
>>
>> which is all fine except where it says "ljusblå". Apparently Solr is
>> interpreting the UTF-8 string "ljusblå" as ISO-8859-1 and thus creates
>> this garbage that makes the search return 0 when it should in reality
>> return 3 hits.
>>
>> All other searches that don't use special characters work 100% fine.
>>
>> I'm new to Solr so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. Can anybody
>> help me out and point me in the direction of a solution?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Daniel Löfquist
>>
>>
> 

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