You can't map them to null, but you can map them to empty string. See the bottom of:<br><br><a href="http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=Koha;a=blob;f=etc/zebradb/etc/word-phrase-utf.chr;h=3268c6269a6b6daa517cb5ff4e22759bec7cf2e5;hb=HEAD">http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=Koha;a=blob;f=etc/zebradb/etc/word-phrase-utf.chr;h=3268c6269a6b6daa517cb5ff4e22759bec7cf2e5;hb=HEAD<br>
</a><br>I'm against mapping all periods to "" though, since there will be titles like "MyLife 2.0" or "Hacking Linux Kernel 2.6" where the period is essential to the semantics. <br><br>It seems like what you might want to do is pull the period OUT of the "space" declaration. That may be worth considering for mainline Koha, after some testing.<br>
<br>--Joe <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/24 Cab Vinton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bibliwho@gmail.com">bibliwho@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Searching for "hms surprise"
does not retrieve this
record (title is "H.M.S. Surprise"):<br></div><div><br><a href="http://splnh.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=19316" target="_blank">http://splnh.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=19316</a><br>
<br>This
search does work of course: "h.m.s. surprise".</div><div><br></div><div>Explanation I was given is that zebra does not support mapping characters to NULL. If anyone has any pull with the zebra folks, this is something that they should address.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We added a 246 (variant title form) to take care of the problem. Of course, have not idea how many other titles in our catalog might be affected by this quirk :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br><div>
<br clear="all">Cab Vinton, Director<br>Sanbornton Public Library<br>Sanbornton, NH<br><br>
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