[SOLR-5082] Implement ie=charset parameter

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.4
• Fix Version/s: 4.5, 6.0
• Assignee: Uwe Schindler
• Reporter: Shawn Heisey
• Created: 27/Jul/13 22:50
• Updated: 09/May/16 18:58
• Resolved: 29/Jul/13 23:27

Description

Allow a user to send a query or update to Solr in a character set other than UTF-8 and inform Solr what charset to use with an "ie" parameter, for input encoding. This was discussed in SOLR-4265 and SOLR-4283.

Changing the default charset is a bad idea because distributed search (SolrCloud) relies on UTF-8.