utf-8 is not so much everywhere

[Paul Libbrecht <pa...@hoplahup.net>]

Hello group,

this message is a word of warning and plea to wiki writers.

Reading the wiki and documentation in general, there seems to be an accepted consensus that most in SOLR is working in utf-8. To my opinion this is absolutely good.

But this may be a remain of the times. Several efforts seem to have been done to revert to more tolerant defaults.

Believing the wiki, I suspected all sorts of broken things in my indexer pipeline.
At the end, thanks to my dear Luke desktop application, I realized that it was just the defaults that were wrong: both the the Velocity response-writer was using iso-8859-1.

With velocity, you just need
            <str name="v.contentType">text/html; charset=utf-8</str>
(the default seems to be text/html and not output any form of charset)
Others may be different.

I don't see a wiki page specialized to that.

paul