[Koha] Koha for library with special needs

[Jesse Weaver]

2008/10/17 Krzysztof Wlodarski <iamkrzys at yahoo.com>

> We are considering to use Koha for a library at the Polish Cultural
> Foundation <http://www.polishculturalfoundation.org/>.   The library has
> about 10,000 books which are mostly in Polish.  The foundation is based in
> the U.S. and most patrons have computers configured with U.S. keyboard and
> they would not know or go to the trouble of localizing they keyboards to
> support Polish characters.  Hence it is critical for us that the search can
> be performed using "normalized" keywords where all Polish special characters
> could be replaced with English "equivalents".  For example, a city name "
> Łódź <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodz>" could be found by typing "Lodz".
>
> So far we have experimented a little with Koha (I think version 2.2, but I
> am not sure since someone else configured it), and we were able to import
> some Polish titles and find them by entering exact Polish spelling, however,
> replacing special Polish characters with English equivalents did not seem to
> work.
>
> Does anyone know if "normalization" in searches can be done, and if so how
> to turn it on?
>
> If not, is it supported by any commercial version of Koha?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Krzysztof
>
>
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It's worth finding out what version of Koha it is. The most recent version
of Koha, 3.0, has a much better search tool, especially when the Zebra
search server is used.

-- 
Jesse Weaver
Software Developer, LibLime
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