Thanks Mohamed for give more description about our same problem I wish we can find a solution for this problem for all the users of koha in the Arab world while I'm searching i find something about the " أ إ آ" letters to considers them all as "ا " and I find something about the suffix " ة ه " the solution is to edit the words-icu.xml file and add these lines : for أ آ إ : <transliterate rule=" [\u0623 \u0625 \u0622] > \u0627 " /> and for the ة ه suffix add : <transliterate rule="ه > ة"/> and for the ي ى suffix add : <transliterate rule=" ى > ي "/> I didn't try this I wish you try and tell me but about ignoring the الـ letters in words i didn't find how to do this I wish someone can help us about this best regards On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:39 AM, mh_zalabany@hotmail.com < mh_zalabany@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi karam I think this issue is very important to all users who use Arabic language We need to know what the important modifications in Zebra index And koha files to index the arabic words without suffix and prifex or searsh with root word using zebra

I will give you example We need to search for word (al-madrasah) this mean school We have tow parts (al) mean (the)and (madrasah ) and the last caracter (h) may have tow forms( ه ة ) we need when we search for madrasa get madrasah and al-madrasah with all its forms Sent from my HTC

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Subject: [Koha] need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 11:12 am

Hi All

I sent this email to the zebra mailing list

I wish that koha will support suffix and prefix in the arabic search by default in the future

I wish if you have any Idea about the solution for this

Best regards Karam.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:20 AM Subject: need help in transliterate rule To: zebralist@lists.indexdata.dk

Hi all , I'm new to zebra , and using it in "koha" ILS

in the Arabic language there is some letter come before the words or after them these letters we don't need to index in our index I will give you an example : in English we can say : the car... in Arabic the same is : السيارة if you note that the letter in Red is "the" and it's ignored in English search but in Arabic search we need the zebra to find every record that have " the word " or just "word" الكلمة or كلمة

so how to define that to zebra

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