[Koha] Arabic Language Index/Search in 3.22 & 16.05

[Mohammad Nashbat]

It was the latest version of Debian I guess it's 8, sorry it was done by the IT and I'm out of office now, but most likely 8 according to them.

Best Regards,
Mohammed Nashbat
Library Instructor

> On Jun 15, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Jesse A Lambertson <jlambertson at sqcc.org> wrote:
>
> Mohammad,
>
> Great. Can I assume you are running your instance of 3.22 on debian 7? Or 8?
>
> شكراً
>
> I will bring this to the guy helping me make these changes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jesse
>
>
>> On 15-Jun-16 2:34 AM, Mohammad Nashbat wrote:
>> Hi Jesse,
>>
>> I just applied the Arabic language to Koha 3.22 and it works fine, I followed the steps in this link (https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Correcting_Search_of_Arabic_records ) but in the file words-icu.xml I added something different (see below), try it and I hope it works with you.
>>
>>
>>
>> <icu_chain locale="en_IN.UTF-8">
>>   <transliterate rule="\'>\ "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="[:Number:] { '-' > '' "/>
>>   <transform rule="[:Control:] Any-Remove"/>
>>   <tokenize rule="l"/>
>>   <transform rule="[[:WhiteSpace:][:Punctuation:]] Remove"/>
>>   <transform rule="NFD"/>
>>   <transform rule="[:Nonspacing Mark:] Remove"/>
>>   <transform rule="NFC"/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الا > ا "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الأ > أ "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الإ > إ "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الآ > آ "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الب > ب "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الت > ت "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الث > ث "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الج > ج "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الح > ح "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الخ > خ "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الد > د "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الذ > ذ "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الر > ر "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الز > ز "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الس > س "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الش > ش "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الص > ص "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الض > ض "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الط > ط "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الظ > ظ "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الع > ع "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الغ > غ "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الف > ف "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الق > ق "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الك > ك "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الل > ل "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الم > م "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الن > ن "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ اله > ه "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الو > و "/>
>>   <transliterate rule="{ الي > ي "/>
>>   <display/>
>>   <casemap rule="l"/>
>> </icu_chain>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks & Best Regards,
>>
>> Mohammed Nashbat
>> Library Instructor
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Katrin Fischer
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 08:40 ص
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Arabic Language Index/Search in 3.22 & 16.05
>>
>> Hi Jesse,
>>
>> is it possible you changed something in order to index 880 that got lost in in the update? 880 is not indexed by default atm I think, but probably should still be searchable in keyword search.
>>
>> Is there any warning on the systme information tab of the about page?
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Katrin
>>
>>> Am 10.06.2016 um 17:53 schrieb Jesse A Lambertson:
>>> Hello and Happy Friday community,
>>>
>>> I have a question about enabling the indexing and searching of Arabic
>>> script in Koha.
>>>
>>> We are currently running a package installation of 3.20 on debian 7.
>>>
>>> In this installation, we are fully able to search in Arabic as the 880
>>> fields are properly indexed.
>>>
>>> But we are also now running a dev/test koha 3.22 (installed from
>>> tarball) on the same server to work out some issues of our
>>> customization. We are planning to then update the 3.20 instance to
>>> 16.05 on Debian 8.5. This will surely be a package installation
>>> (install koha-common etc).
>>>
>>> We are having troubles getting the Arabic language indexing to work on
>>> the 3.22 dev/test instance (ICU is on, we followed this:
>>> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Correcting_Search_of_Arabic_recor
>>> ds
>>>
>>> My question is: Were there be any fundamental changes to 3.22 that
>>> would prevent the Arabic language indexing (880 fields) from working?
>>> Is this perhaps tied to the tarball installation?
>>>
>>> Should we expect the same difficulties when we update the main
>>> instance then to 16.05? Or should we expect all other configurations
>>> to roll smoothly into 16.05?
>>>
>>> Thank you much,
>>>
>>> Jesse
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