Hello Koha Lover,
The win32 install you ran includes a set of sample data so you can evaluate koha
and decide if you want to try it with your own data. So no, it is not a mistake;
it was done for a reason. If you were going to use only english to enter your
data, it is possible to delete the existing sample data and import your own data
using a bulkmarcimport script which has a purge option. Or a blank data set is
also included in the install, but many of the configuration settings need to be made
before you can use it.

 However, since you are interested in using koha with Modern Greek, I am
almost certain that you should not use the sample data sets that are included
with win32 install package. I don't know much about  using languages other than
english, but I do know that the included data sets were not created to use
unicode (UTF-8?) encoding and so I am almost certain that you will need to
create a new set of blank data using unicode before you can use the greek
character set. This may sound difficult, but there is script that you can run to
do it.

I just found this page on the koha wiki that may help you:

http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=encodingscratchpad.

Note that this page says:
"MySQL Version 4.1 is absolute minimum if you want to handle encoding correctly"
and
"You must create your Koha database _after_ you set the character set defaults
otherwise the database could be set to the wrong defaults"

I have not set up encoding like this before, so I don't know how much I can
help you. If I get some free time, I will try to test it. I will copy the list on this
response, and perhaps some other members can offer some suggestions for
configuring koha to use a non-english character set.

For the Z3950 queries, I think a dial-up should work, but of course it may not
be fast. If you can browse the internet from the computer, you should be able to
do a Z3950 query. Of course you will need to activate the dial-up connection
before you do any queries.

I hope this helps.

Rob

Koha Lover wrote: 
Dear Mr Weir:

I realize that you are quite busy but I would like to
pose a possible error to you.  When we first got into
Koha (Intranet; 'Koha', 'Koha') we found that there
was a branch waiting for us from a college in India. 
That branch couldn't be deleted because the message
said that it was still needed.  Evidently there are
still books in the data base which depend on that
branch.  This seems to be an error, unless it is
intentional for one reason or another.  How will we
purge  such remnants of other installations from the
data base?

At the moment we have installed Koha on a second
computer, one that has a dial-up line.  We don't know
enough to test YAZ yet, however.

When we do set up a LAN, does the Koha/LAN network
architecture oblige a fixed connection to our ISP (for
example ADSL)?  It seems to me that dial-up will be a
non-starter, but networks are something I'm very weak
in.

The person I am helping requested that I write a
little guide how to install Koha with the actual
givens that we have here in his library.  In this
guide I have used some material from your own emails
and also included some internal references from the
local environment here.  However, it occurred to me
that with the appropriate changes you might find the
guide useful in other contexts.

We have started to learn about MARC.

We have also contacted M. Poulain to ask about
converting Koha to Modern Greek.

Thanks very much for your assistance up to now.

With best wishes--

Koha Lover


 
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