On the FAST Server:
1. Stop
the FAST Index server processes.
2. Edit $FASTSEARCH/etc/character_normalization.xml and add
the following snippet to ALL language sections of the file.
<normalization
description="dollar to sdds">
<input>x24</input>
<output>[sdds]</output>
</normalization>
3. Go
to the Document Processing tab on the FAST InStream page and add
dmftmetadata as a field in the DCTMCharacterNormalizer stage.
On the DCTM Content
Server:
1. Edit
the file $DOCUMENTUM/fulltext/fast/dm_AttributeMapping.xml
2. Remove
the $ character from WHITESPACE_CHARS
After making these changes,
restart the docbase, the index server, and the index agent.
NOTE:
1. Changing
the whitespace character handling will require a re-import of content.
All existing indices must be removed and then rebuilt from the source
repositories.
2. Future
upgrades or hotfix installations of the Index Server will wipe out this
customization. You will need to update the configuration file again (in
the Index Server) to specify the modified whitespace list.
3. Index
Server and Query Plugin whitespace settings must be kept in sync
otherwise they will get inconsistent behaviours between indexing and
querying.
4. When
retrieving summary information in search results, the special character
will be replaced with the new output string. For example, $500 will be
displayed as sdds500.
Source: http://solutions.emc.com/emcsolutionview.asp?id=esg105745