[Koha] Help from people experienced in Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK languages

[Yuval Hager]

On 12/10/2015 07:35 AM, Galen Charlton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Tajoli Zeno <z.tajoli at cineca.it> wrote:
>> The link: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14759
>>
>>
>> Please try to join the discussion also if you don't know perl, but if you
>> know well one of those:
>> -  Arabic alphabet and language
>> -  Hebrew alphabet and language
>> -  CJK writing systems and languages
> 
> In addition, it would be great to have input from Koha users using
> *any* language that contains diacritics, as there is a functionality
> question underlying the discussion.
> 
> At the moment, the module in question is used to remove diacritics
> when automatically generating a public catalog username -- e.g., if a
> patron whose surname is Müller is registered with a Koha database,
> would they expect, based on their use of other websites, that their
> username could include the diacritic (e.g., "müller")? Or would they
> expect that it would never include the diacritics (e.g., "muller")?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Galen
> 

I don't know about umlauts, but at least in Hebrew it would be fine to remove
the diacritics. They are mostly unused in adult daily life and I can't imagine
anyone trying to add diacritics to their name (most people even don't know how
to type those). And if the odd person comes along who tries that, removing
those would be totally fine.

I'll jump over the other discussion see if I can help. Although I'm a Koha
user/admin and I know Hebrew, I don't mix the two :)