UTF-8 and latin accents

[Claudio Martella <cl...@tis.bz.it>]

Hello list,

I'm trying to index documents with latin accents (italian documents). I
extract the text from .doc documents with Tika directly into .xml files.
If i open up the XML document with my Dashcode (i run mac os x) i can
see the characters correctly. my xml document is an xml document with the
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<add><doc>
...
headers.

When i search and retrieve documents in solr the accented characters are
replaced by an '?'. What is the problem?
I guess the problem could be in (1) the schema (2) the xml document file
coding itself (i don't see the characters correctly if i open it up with
vim in terminal).

Any suggestions? thanks

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Re: UTF-8 and latin accents

[Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com>]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Claudio Martella
<cl...@tis.bz.it> wrote:
> I'm trying to index documents with latin accents (italian documents). I
> extract the text from .doc documents with Tika directly into .xml files.
> If i open up the XML document with my Dashcode (i run mac os x) i can
> see the characters correctly. my xml document is an xml document with the
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <add><doc>
> ...
> headers.

Maybe those documents aren't actually in UTF8.
Why don't you try Solr's example/exampledocs/utf8-example.xml

> When i search and retrieve documents in solr the accented characters are
> replaced by an '?'. What is the problem?
> I guess the problem could be in (1) the schema (2) the xml document file
> coding itself (i don't see the characters correctly if i open it up with
> vim in terminal).

in vim/gvim try
:set encoding=utf8

-Yonik
http://www.lucidimagination.com