It's come to my attention that tags 880 have something to do with this (by the way, I am still learning cataloging). The role of the 880 is to provide more than one script (called a
Hi Amzari et al, So first off, I tried it out: http://opac.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=23750 How's it look? I don't know Arabic, but I do know from my studies in linguistics that Arabic is a Right-to-Left language. I also know that there is some trickiness when it comes to searching because Arabic is a highly inflected language. transliteration) for the same language. So for instance, you might want the main record to use Arabic script, but then provide a transliteration script in 880 so that you could search for items even on a keyboard that didn't support input of Arabic script, make sense? The example records I posted in response to Carol will give you a good sense for what is possible in Koha.
1. What should I add in my MARC structure, Links to other fields and etc? It's hard to give you advice in this area without a more through understanding of the needs you have for your collection. I'd think you would want to follow standard MARC cataloging practice here, though if you want to be able to search for both Arabic and Latin scripts (within the same record), you might want to handle that with local use fields as I've outlined to Carol.
3. Can I directly catalog in [my] native language ([i.e.] Arabic) in tags other than tag 880, not using transliteration? Example tag 245. If I can, how? [snip] Yep you can. As soon as you set up UTF-8 as Carol has outlined it should 'just work'.
Of course, if you would like support setting up your system any of the companies listed on the support page: http://koha.org/support/pay.html would be glad to help out. Also, if there is functionality related to Arabic that you would like to see in Koha, of course we'd love to develop it for you. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS