[Koha] Search of Non-Latin records

[MHE I.T. Admin (DRR)]

Dear Araik,

I think no Latin characters indexing and searching remain the
major bottleneck of Koha. I can not imagine a library in the world with
couple books in non Latin characters and I am not sure why
the developer community has not been able to address this.

We have many books in Arabic and Kurdish in our library and we have not
been able to index them yet. We have tried to find a solution for 4 months
now. We tried all possible direction we got and still when we look for book
Koha will list all of the book with non Latin characters.

I suggest integrating Google Search API in Koha might solve all the issue
we have.

DRR

On 19 November 2012 11:59, Araik Manukyan <araik at flib.sci.am> wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
>
>
> Our catalog mainly consists of Armenian records, thus during the
> installation we have chosen to use ICU. Then, after importing some records,
> we have rebuilded the Zebra index. On the console it was written that 7
> records were indexed. However, when we tried to search for imported
> records,
> nothing was retrieved. But the records are definitely imported, since they
> are visible in the Staged Records. Interestingly, even records in English
> are not being searched.
>
>
>
> In the previous versions of koha we were enabling ICU after the
> installation
> by several manual modfications, but now this does not work too. If we do in
> this way, Koha simply retrieves all existing records in Armenian which is
> of
> course wrong.
>
>
>
> So, it appears that regardless how we enable ICU (during the installation
> or
> aftewards), non-latin records are anyway not being indexed.
>
>
>
> Please, can someone provide us a step-by-step solution? This is essential
> for us.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Araik.
>
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