[mb-devel] Better queries for symbols

[Robert Kaye]

On Jan 15, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Michael Margolis wrote:
> Of course, I can't go blindly replacing all exclamation points with  
> "chk " my queries, so how do I go about having my app actually  
> perform an XML query for bands named !!!! and +/-?

Currently this is not possible:

http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/925

The problem is that Lucene is optimized to throw out stop words an  
punctuation. To make Lucene stop doing that is rather much work as I  
have found out, and thus this bug has not been fixed. And it won't be  
fixed until I port the search service to Lucene 2.0, which currently  
has no timeframe. :-(

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