diff --git a/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf.in b/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf.in
index bfe24711..a5feddf1 100644
--- a/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf.in
+++ b/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf.in
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ logfilename = stderr
 # daemloglevel = 3
 # daemlogfilename = /dev/null
 
+# Decide if we store character case and diacritics in the index. If we do, 
+# searches sensitive to case and diacritics can be performed, but the index
+# will be bigger, and some marginal weirdness may sometimes occur. We
+# default to a stripped index for now.
+indexStripChars = 1
+
 # Languages for which to build stemming databases at the end of
 # indexing. Stemmer names can be found on http://www.xapian.org 
 # The flag to perform stem expansion at query time is now set from the GUI