[Koha] Searching in Arabic

[Karam Qubsi]

Ahlan WaSahlan Jesse .
Welcome ...
On 12 Nov 2015 23:22, "Jesse Lambertson" <jlambertson at sqcc.org> wrote:

> Shukran Karam.
>
> This looks quite promising also.
> I will look it over now and talk to one of my local IT people.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jesse
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi ,
>> This is a good step by steep reference about adding new Marc fields to
>> zebra index with koha .
>> I hope it will help / by Ashraf Brzy   .
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHuoX_AeLkWK_0FEkWhCvpoTCWO7AcNG5355DIZ_7QA/edit
>>
>> for handling old books there is  a similar case to use other fields in
>> indexing you can check this wiki page :
>> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_and_old_books#Pros_and_cons
>>
>> Regards ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Tajoli Zeno <z.tajoli at cineca.it> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jesse,
>>>
>>>
>>> Il 12/11/2015 15:16, Jesse Lambertson ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> I think this is because 880 is not in the default indexing list.
>>>> It seems to me that associated linked 880 fields for title (245),
>>>> author(
>>>> 100 and 700) as well as series (490 and 830) should return results
>>>> searched
>>>> in Arabic as long as we add 880 to the list.
>>>>
>>>> Am I incorrect in that assumption?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, sorry.
>>> You assumption is correct.
>>> You need to change the default indexing setup to index your 880 that are
>>> probably like:
>>> 880 10$6245-01/(3/r$a[Arabic chars]
>>>
>>> I suggest you to open a bug here:
>>> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/
>>> with description of the problem and 10-20 records from your catalogue to
>>> do test.
>>>
>>> Do you want to try to fix your self ?
>>> Well, you need to understand how indexing works with Zebra.
>>>
>>> Start on chapter 13 of the manual:
>>> http://translate.koha-community.org/manual/3.20/en/searching.html
>>>
>>> Read the basic on Zebra documentation:
>>> http://www.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/record-model-domxml.html
>>> (Tip: configuration language of the files is XSLT, so you need to learn
>>> a basic of it).
>>>
>>> The 3 basic files are:
>>> etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml
>>> etc/zebradb/xsl/koha-indexdefs-to-zebra.xsl
>>> etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl
>>>
>>> The real working file is biblio-zebra-indexdefs.xsl
>>> In its head you can read:
>>> <!--
>>> This file has been automatically generated from a Koha index definition
>>> file with the stylesheet koha-indexdefs-to-zebra.xsl. Do not manually edit
>>> this file,as it may be overwritten. To regenerate, edit the appropriate
>>> Koha index definition file (probably something like
>>> {biblio,authority}-koha-indexdefs.xml) and run: `xsltproc
>>> koha-indexdefs-to-zebra.xsl {biblio,authority}-koha-indexdefs.xml >
>>> {biblio,authority}-zebra-indexdefs.xsl` (substituting the appropriate file
>>> names).
>>> -->
>>>
>>> You probaly need to backport this fix from master to 3.20:
>>> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14217
>>>
>>> and insert many condition in biblio-koha-indexdefs.xml about 880 with
>>> specific values in $6
>>>
>>> Not an easy work.
>>>
>>> Bye
>>> Zeno Tajoli
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Zeno Tajoli
>>> /Dipartimento Sviluppi Innovativi/ - Automazione Biblioteche
>>> Email: z.tajoli at cineca.it Fax: 051/6132198
>>> *CINECA* Consorzio Interuniversitario - Sede operativa di Segrate (MI)
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Karam Qubsi <https://www.linkedin.com/in/kqubsi>*
>>
>> *Shah Alam , Malaysia . *
>>
>>
>>
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