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Character Filters
editCharacter Filters
editCharacter filters are used to preprocess the string of
characters before it is passed to the tokenizer.
A character filter may be used to strip out HTML markup, or to convert
"&" characters to the word "and".
Elasticsearch has built in characters filters which can be used to build custom analyzers.