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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I just joined the list. I have little technical
understanding of the back end of Koha, but maybe someone knows an answer to
this problem:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When searching our catalog ( <a
href="http://mlon.masscat.org/">http://mlon.masscat.org/</a> ), Koha doesn’t
ignore diacritics. So, for example, </span></font><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>au,phr: bartok, bela</span></font></b><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> won’t get any hits because the author’s name has diacritics: <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Bartók, Béla</span></b>. Pasting in the search term
with the accents, I get 231 hits. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Names like <strong><b><span
style='font-weight:normal'>Fauré, Gabriel</span></b>,</strong><strong><b><span
style='font-weight:normal'> Kœchlin, Charles and Dvor</span></b></strong></span></font><strong><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:black;font-weight:normal'>̌</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal'>ák, Antonín are other examples (we are
a music school and our library’s holdings includes lots of music scores and
sound recordings with names and titles in German, French, Czech, etc.)</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This is very confusing
to our patrons—they can’t find things they are looking for. Is there any way
to fix this so diacritics are ignored?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span></font><font
size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Roy Rudolph</span></font><font size=1 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Director</span></font><font size=1 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Bakalar Library<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Longy <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Music</st1:PlaceName></st1:place></span></font><font
size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=1
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>1 Follen
Street</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><font size=1 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=1
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Cambridge</span></font></st1:City><font
size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">MA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">02138</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><font
size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>tel.: 617-876-0956 ext. 1541</span></font><font size=1
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>fax: 617-354-8841</span></font><font size=1 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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