[Koha] Arabic Language Index/Search in 3.22 & 16.05

[Jesse A Lambertson]

Mohammad,

Great. Can I assume you are running your instance of 3.22 on debian 7? Or 8?

شكراً

I will bring this to the guy helping me make these changes.

Cheers,

Jesse


On 15-Jun-16 2:34 AM, Mohammad Nashbat wrote:
> Hi Jesse,
>
> I just applied the Arabic language to Koha 3.22 and it works fine, I followed the steps in this link (https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Correcting_Search_of_Arabic_records ) but in the file words-icu.xml I added something different (see below), try it and I hope it works with you.
>
>
>
> <icu_chain locale="en_IN.UTF-8">
>    <transliterate rule="\'>\ "/>
>    <transliterate rule="[:Number:] { '-' > '' "/>
>    <transform rule="[:Control:] Any-Remove"/>
>    <tokenize rule="l"/>
>    <transform rule="[[:WhiteSpace:][:Punctuation:]] Remove"/>
>    <transform rule="NFD"/>
>    <transform rule="[:Nonspacing Mark:] Remove"/>
>    <transform rule="NFC"/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الا > ا "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الأ > أ "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الإ > إ "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الآ > آ "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الب > ب "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الت > ت "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الث > ث "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الج > ج "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الح > ح "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الخ > خ "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الد > د "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الذ > ذ "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الر > ر "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الز > ز "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الس > س "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الش > ش "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الص > ص "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الض > ض "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الط > ط "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الظ > ظ "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الع > ع "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الغ > غ "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الف > ف "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الق > ق "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الك > ك "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الل > ل "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الم > م "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الن > ن "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ اله > ه "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الو > و "/>
>    <transliterate rule="{ الي > ي "/>
>    <display/>
>    <casemap rule="l"/>
> </icu_chain>
>
>
>
> Thanks & Best Regards,
>
> Mohammed Nashbat
> Library Instructor
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Katrin Fischer
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 08:40 ص
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Arabic Language Index/Search in 3.22 & 16.05
>
> Hi Jesse,
>
> is it possible you changed something in order to index 880 that got lost in in the update? 880 is not indexed by default atm I think, but probably should still be searchable in keyword search.
>
> Is there any warning on the systme information tab of the about page?
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Katrin
>
> Am 10.06.2016 um 17:53 schrieb Jesse A Lambertson:
>> Hello and Happy Friday community,
>>
>> I have a question about enabling the indexing and searching of Arabic
>> script in Koha.
>>
>> We are currently running a package installation of 3.20 on debian 7.
>>
>> In this installation, we are fully able to search in Arabic as the 880
>> fields are properly indexed.
>>
>> But we are also now running a dev/test koha 3.22 (installed from
>> tarball) on the same server to work out some issues of our
>> customization. We are planning to then update the 3.20 instance to
>> 16.05 on Debian 8.5. This will surely be a package installation
>> (install koha-common etc).
>>
>> We are having troubles getting the Arabic language indexing to work on
>> the 3.22 dev/test instance (ICU is on, we followed this:
>> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Correcting_Search_of_Arabic_recor
>> ds
>>
>> My question is: Were there be any fundamental changes to 3.22 that
>> would prevent the Arabic language indexing (880 fields) from working?
>> Is this perhaps tied to the tarball installation?
>>
>> Should we expect the same difficulties when we update the main
>> instance then to 16.05? Or should we expect all other configurations
>> to roll smoothly into 16.05?
>>
>> Thank you much,
>>
>> Jesse
>>
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