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Roy,<br>
<br>
Searches in the catalog are done through Zebra, bot on the OPAC and
Intranet.<br>
<br>
Within zebra, the diacritics are not indexed. Instead, they are
converted to their base caracter. For example, Bartók, Béla are kept
as Bartok, Bela.<br>
<br>
There is a configuration file to do those character conversion in
zebra. There are 2 elements you need to check.<br>
<br>
FIRST:<br>
The /etc/koha/zebradb/lang_defs/ directory contains 2 other
directories, en and fr. These directories contains a file called
sort-string-utf.chr.<br>
<br>
That is the file use to convert the diacritics. For example, in the fr
(french) folder, one of the line will be <br>
<br>
map âàáäăă a<br>
<br>
This means that all 'a' modified characters are translated to a.<br>
<br>
Creating a new sort-string-utf.chr file in another directory (ex:
/etc/koha/zebradb/lang_defs/masscat) or adapting an existitng one solve
the first part of your problem.<br>
<br>
SECOND<br>
The second part is to make sure zebra is referring the correct file.
In your .cfg files located in /etc/koha/zebradb, you have a
profilePath. Make sure it contains the path to your
sort-string-utf.chr file. (ex: /etc/koha/zebradb/lang_defs/masscat)<br>
<br>
Make sure to change the profilePath of all .cfg files.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps,<br>
<br>
Eric<br>
<br>
Rudolph, Roy wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; 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 face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">When searching our
catalog ( <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://mlon.masscat.org/">http://mlon.masscat.org/</a>
), Koha doesn’t
ignore diacritics. So, for example, </span></font><b><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-weight: bold;"
lang="EN">au,phr: bartok, bela</span></font></b><font color="black"
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN">
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 color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN">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
color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-weight: normal;"
lang="EN">̌</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font color="black"
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-weight: normal;"
lang="EN">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
color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN">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 face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"> </span></font><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;">----------------------------------------------------------------</span></font><font
face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;">Roy Rudolph</span></font><font
face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;">Director</span></font><font
face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;">Bakalar Library<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; 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
face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font
face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;">1 Follen Street</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><font
face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font
face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;">Cambridge</span></font></st1:City><font
face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;">, <st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">02138</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><font
face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;">tel.: 617-876-0956 ext.
1541</span></font><font face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;">fax: 617-354-8841</span></font><font
face="Calibri" size="1"><span
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
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