gistfile1.sh

curl -XPUT localhost:9200/test -d '
{
    "settings" : {
        "index": {
            "analysis": {
                "analyzer": {
                    "manualindexanalyzer": {
                        "type": "custom",
                        "tokenizer": "whitespace",
                        "filter": [
                            "lowercase",
                            "asciifolding",
                            "length",
                            "myelision"
                        ],
                        "char_filter": [
                            "html_strip"
                        ]
                    },
                    "manualsearchanalyzer": {
                        "type": "custom",
                        "tokenizer": "whitespace",
                        "filter": [
                            "lowercase",
                            "asciifolding",
                            "length",
                            "myelision"
                        ],
                        "char_filter": [
                            "html_strip"
                        ]
                    }
                },
                "filter": {
                    "myelision": {
                        "type": "elision",
                        "articles": ["l", "m", "t", "qu", "n", "s", "j"]
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "mappings" : {
        "my_type" : {
            "index_analyzer" : "manualindexanalyzer",
            "search_analyzer" : "manualsearchanalyzer"
        }
    }
}'

curl localhost:9200/test/_analyze?analyzer=manualindexanalyzer -d 'l’avion'

curl localhost:9200/test/my_type/1 -d '{
    "my_field" : "l’avion"
}'

curl -XPOST localhost:9200/test/_refresh

# With my_type in search
curl localhost:9200/test/my_type/_search?pretty=1 -d '{
    "query" : {
        "query_string" : {
            "query" : "l’avion"
        }
    }
}'

# Without my_type in search
curl localhost:9200/test/my_type/_search?pretty=1 -d '{
    "query" : {
        "query_string" : {
            "default_field" : "my_field",
            "query" : "l’avion"
        }
    }
}'