[Koha] Multilingual Searching and ICU Chains

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Charles,

if ICU with Zebra is set up correctly, you should be able to search for
the records using the original script (as cataloged) without any further
setup. If the original script is in 880 only the keyword search will
include them by default. But this is not related to ICU - the problem is
that indexing is not set up to include the 880 xxx in the corresponding
indexes.

If you want to search transliterated forms or need some other specific
things, adjustments to the chains might be needed.

Hope this helps,

Katrin

On 20.11.19 20:39, Charles Kelley wrote:
> 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.
>