[LUCENE-3929] org.apache.lucene.analysis.fr.FrenchAnalyzer could introduce french accent insensitive search.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.6, 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: core/search
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Robert Muir
• Reporter: Geoffroy Schneck
• Created: 27/Mar/12 15:10
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:12
• Resolved: 27/Mar/12 15:18

Description

The GermanAnalyzer does the same with the Umlaut for example. Searching for 'gehort' will return 'gehört' and 'gehort' .

I expected that the FrenchAnalyzer would also return 'sécuritaires' and 'securitaires' and searching for any of them, but it's not the case