Hi, I might start to sound like a salesman, but the Elasticsearch indexing code in Koha handles and indexes alternate script fields (880) automatically in the correct search fields. :) Regards, Ere Katrin Fischer kirjoitti 22.11.2019 klo 11.44:
Hi Charles,
if ICU with Zebra is set up correctly, you should be able to search for the records using the original script (as cataloged) without any further setup. If the original script is in 880 only the keyword search will include them by default. But this is not related to ICU - the problem is that indexing is not set up to include the 880 xxx in the corresponding indexes.
If you want to search transliterated forms or need some other specific things, adjustments to the chains might be needed.
Hope this helps,
Katrin
On 20.11.19 20:39, Charles Kelley wrote:
Hello, all!
I am developing a catalog of multilingual, multiscript materials: Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Vietnamese, to name but a few. Since both Koha and MarcEdit are UTF8, I can enter the cataloging records and edit them in their appropriate script.
What I cannot do is to search them. I have seen on the Koha Community wiki is that ICU chains have to be configured. Here's the link: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_Chains_Library. I also found an exchange about this: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2012-January/031714.html.
Is one to infer that the ICU chain has to be configured for each writing system? Are there other multilingual libraries that have implemented multilingual, multiscript searching in Koha and how did they do so?
Many thanks for your help in this matter.
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