[Koha] need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words

[Karam Qubsi]

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 at hotmail.com <
mh_zalabany at 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
>
>
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Karam Qubsi" <karamqubsi at gmail.com>
> To: "Koha" <Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>, <Koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> >
> 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 at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:20 AM
> Subject: need help in transliterate rule
> To: zebralist at 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
>
> thanks a lot
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