ElasticSearch get offsets of highlighted snippets

Question

Is it possible to get character positions of each highlighted fragment? I need to match the highlighted text back to the source document and having character positions would

Answer 1

The client-side approach is actually standard practice.

We have discussed adding the offsets, but are afraid it would lead to more confusion. The offsets provided are specific to Java's UTF-16 String encoding, which, while they could technically be used to calculate the fragments from $LANG, it's way more straightforward to parse the response text for the delimiters you specified.