[Koha] Search of Non-Latin records

[MHE IT admin]

I thought this is a OpenSource community and people are sharing
their experiences to improve the usability of Koha. We did install ICU with
Developer guys and the results was the same unless you have come with
something they do not. We are in Iraq and there is no Banking system to be
able to pay anyone as state owned university. I appreciate if you guide us
so we can fix this issue with our system,

http://library.koyauniversity.org/

Thanks


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Mohamed zalabany
<mh_zalabany at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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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