How to search utf8 wordings in Magento Enterprise Edition with Solr?

April 30, 2013 20:20
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Magento Enterprise Edition has an option that can use the Apache Solr for the indexing and searching engine. For English searching is working like a charm, however, not working well with UTF8 encoding like Traditional Chinese. I’ve found that it is because the class “Apache_Solr_Service” sends the search request to Solr with the content-type “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”. [...]