[Koha] Multilingual Searching and ICU Chains

[Ere Maijala]

Hi,

I'd use Elasticsearch, at least with all the improvements in the
upcoming Koha 19.11 version. It supports e.g. ICU folding out of the
box, and the analysis chain can be relatively easily modified too. See
the (quite condensed) information at
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Elasticsearch.

Best,
Ere

Charles Kelley kirjoitti 20.11.2019 klo 21.39:
> Hello, all!
> 
>     I am developing a catalog of multilingual, multiscript materials:
> Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese,
> Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Vietnamese, to name but a few. Since both Koha
> and MarcEdit are UTF8, I can enter the cataloging records and edit them in
> their appropriate script.
> 
>     What I cannot do is to search them. I have seen on the Koha Community
> wiki is that ICU chains have to be configured. Here's the link:
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_Chains_Library. I also found an
> exchange about this:
> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2012-January/031714.html.
> 
>     Is one to infer that the ICU chain has to be configured for each
> writing system? Are there other multilingual libraries that have
> implemented multilingual, multiscript searching in Koha and how did they do
> so?
> 
>     Many thanks for your help in this matter.
> 

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Ere Maijala
Kansalliskirjasto / The National Library of Finland