We are having two different issues with our Koha system even after updating to the latest version 3.8.1: 1. Zebra searches fail. When turning off zebra we get an "as-marc" method error. Ideally, I would like to use zebra so that we can allow our MARC records to be accessed by other libraries. 2. We have materials in Greek, Russian and Spanish in our collection and the extended UTF-8 characters come up as ?s and black diamonds. To see what I mean do a search in our opac for Alexander Schmemann. It is located at opac.orthdoxoeducationonline.net Although, the SAX parser test says it looks good, the 0x value is not the same one that Koha wants even though I did move the lines around in the config file. We are running the server on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS. We have turned on ICU indexing on zebra and set the parameters for ICU in the administrative module of Koha under Searching. The export lines for PER5LIB and KOHA_CONF appear to be in the correct places. Where I think the issue is is that there are multiple areas where these parameters must be inserted. Ideally, a system of this complexity should only have one area for configuration changes. My concern is that with so many PERL modules there are all too many places for Koha to break. Attempting to run the rebuild index script rebuild_zebra -b -v -r results in an error on line 6. By turning off the zebra server, the opac partially processes searches. My suspicion lies in the handling of a MARC record I recently added from the Library of Congress Z39.50 server for a book entitled, "Man of God" published by the Nicodemus Press of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia in 1994. The MARC record may be missing a required field. We are investigating that currently. If someone finds out the issue, please let us know. George Masters Director Orthodox Christian Library System