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On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Thomas Dowling <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Greetings--
>
> I'm trying to flesh out my synonyms.txt file for a couple of Solr indexes,
> and I stumbled across something weird.  I added these lines to
> synonyms.txt:
>
> co2, carbon dioxide
> ch4, methane
>
>
> The second line worked as expected: I restarted Solr, reindexed, and could
> search ch4 and methane as synonyms of each other.
>
> The first line did something weird.  Before the change, I can get results
> for both CO2 and for "CARBON DIOXIDE" (just different results).  After the
> change, searching CO2 got zero results, as did "CARBON DIOXIDE".  So at
> least they're acting like synonyms, right?  But why in the world do they
> both stop finding hits?
>
> Pre-change:
>  CO2                   225 hits
>  "CARBON DIOXIDE"      130 hits
>  CARBON DIOXIDE        1030 hits
>
> Post-change:
>  CO2                   0 hits
>  "CARBON DIOXIDE"      0 hits
>  CARBON DIOXIDE        1030 hits
>
>
> Also, if I want to be able to search for Greek letters by name (alpha,
> beta, etc.), is there a better way than to use synonmyms.txt?
>
>  Ä,ä,delta
>
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Thomas Dowling
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