[Koha] Sorting Search Results for Arabic titles... Koha 3.14...

[Barton Chittenden]

Layale,

The first thing you need to do is make sure that you've set up ICU chains,
which enables internationalization in Zebra.

See https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_chains_configuration

After that, you may need to customize words-icu.xml. See the Arabic section
of

https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_Chains_Library

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Layale Bassil <lb26 at aub.edu.lb> wrote:

> Hello All,
> We are currently using Koha 3.14 and we have imported around 2000 records
> to Koha which have Arabic and transliterated titles. I have two questions:
>
> 1-      When searching, the results are not sorted correctly if I select
> sort by Title (A-Z). I found 3 links online related to this topic:
> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2016-July/045731.html and this:
> http://lists.indexdata.dk/pipermail/zebralist/2015-March/002610.html and
> this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.koha/19912/
> match=cyrillic+title. But I could not make it work for me. The search
> results are not being consistent. How does the sorting work? What is it
> sorting by when I select Title (A-Z)?
>
> 2-      I need to tell Zebra to search only in 245 subfields a and b! I
> don't want it to search in 245 subfield c (Statement of responsibility)
> because it is returning irrelevant results. How can I specify only
> subfields a and b for the search by title?
> Thank you so much.
> Regards.
>
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