[Koha] Search of Non-Latin records

[Mohamed zalabany]

i confirm the search in Arabic is working well 
and we developed the system to manipulate the special cases in Arabic also but we offer it with charge 
i think you didn't install the ICU properly



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> From: admin at mhe-krg.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:28:10 +0300
> To: araik at flib.sci.am
> CC: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Search of Non-Latin records
> 
> 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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