Hello Koha Lover, The win32 install you ran includes a set of sample data so you can evaluate koha and decide if you want to try it with your own data. So no, it is not a mistake; it was done for a reason. If you were going to use only english to enter your data, it is possible to delete the existing sample data and import your own data using a bulkmarcimport script which has a purge option. Or a blank data set is also included in the install, but many of the configuration settings need to be made before you can use it. However, since you are interested in using koha with Modern Greek, I am almost certain that you should not use the sample data sets that are included with win32 install package. I don't know much about using languages other than english, but I do know that the included data sets were not created to use unicode (UTF-8?) encoding and so I am almost certain that you will need to create a new set of blank data using unicode before you can use the greek character set. This may sound difficult, but there is script that you can run to do it. I just found this page on the koha wiki that may help you: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=encodingscratchpad. Note that this page says: "MySQL <http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=mysql> Version 4.1 is absolute minimum if you want to handle encoding correctly" and "You must create your Koha database _after_ you set the character set defaults otherwise the database could be set to the wrong defaults" I have not set up encoding like this before, so I don't know how much I can help you. If I get some free time, I will try to test it. I will copy the list on this response, and perhaps some other members can offer some suggestions for configuring koha to use a non-english character set. For the Z3950 queries, I think a dial-up should work, but of course it may not be fast. If you can browse the internet from the computer, you should be able to do a Z3950 query. Of course you will need to activate the dial-up connection before you do any queries. I hope this helps. Rob Koha Lover wrote:
Dear Mr Weir:
I realize that you are quite busy but I would like to pose a possible error to you. When we first got into Koha (Intranet; 'Koha', 'Koha') we found that there was a branch waiting for us from a college in India. That branch couldn't be deleted because the message said that it was still needed. Evidently there are still books in the data base which depend on that branch. This seems to be an error, unless it is intentional for one reason or another. How will we purge such remnants of other installations from the data base?
At the moment we have installed Koha on a second computer, one that has a dial-up line. We don't know enough to test YAZ yet, however.
When we do set up a LAN, does the Koha/LAN network architecture oblige a fixed connection to our ISP (for example ADSL)? It seems to me that dial-up will be a non-starter, but networks are something I'm very weak in.
The person I am helping requested that I write a little guide how to install Koha with the actual givens that we have here in his library. In this guide I have used some material from your own emails and also included some internal references from the local environment here. However, it occurred to me that with the appropriate changes you might find the guide useful in other contexts.
We have started to learn about MARC.
We have also contacted M. Poulain to ask about converting Koha to Modern Greek.
Thanks very much for your assistance up to now.
With best wishes--
Koha Lover
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