[Koha] add language to Koha V 3.0

[Indranil Das Gupta]

Hi Vinod,

2009/7/9 vinod kumar <vinod.kumar.trf at gmail.com>:
> Could someone help me on the  process to add bangla and malyalam languages
> to Koha.

I was unable to comprehend the entire meaning of your question. Are
you asking about

a) having a OPAC whose interface is in Bangla?

or

b) having the capability to catalogue and search in Bangla?

or

c) Both a and b above?

Now, if your answer is :

"a" then for 3.x it's work-in-progress atm. Me and a librarian
colleague of mine are working on it at present. If you know bangla,
you are most welcome to come in and contribute, that way the work will
finish faster :)

"b" then its already there and has been there for like ages. Just make
sure that you follow the instructions about setting the collation and
all to utf-8 for the MySQL database and you should be good. FWIW, even
back in the days when Koha didn't support Unicode out of the box
(instead going with ISO-8859-1 character encoding), it was still very
much doable [1]

"c" I suppose you can understand what the answer to that one is =)

hth,
-indra

> v. kumar

References :

[1] "Enabling Indic Support in Library Information Systems : An
Opensource Localizer’s Perspective" -
http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/1944/506/1/05cali_15.pdf