[Koha] Thai Language Support

[Alex Shepherd]

Hi,

I’m in the process of transforming and importing bibliographic records from a UNICODE eLM system into Koha. The eLM system had a mixture of English and Thai language titles and maybe a few other non english UNICODE titles as well.

I’m making pretty good progress with the import in that I can search for books by key words or barcode etc and it is finding things but I’m not sure about the searching for Thai language books as I don’t know or speak Thai.

I see references to modifying the zebra search index configuration here:

	https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_chains_configuration

	https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_Chains_Library#Thai

but when I try to follow these examples I get an error:

	sudo koha-rebuild-zebra -f bbs
	Warning: You passed -x which is already the default and is now deprecated
	07:32:41-30/10 zebraidx(27438) [warn] default.idx:14: Could not load icuchain config 'words-icu.xml'
	07:32:41-30/10 zebraidx(27438) [warn] default.idx:23: Could not load icuchain config 'words-icu.xml'
	07:32:41-30/10 zebraidx(27438) [fatal] zebra_begin_trans: cannot open register

I’ve doubled check the file names in default.idx and they look ok to me.

I wonder if anyone else has any experience with tuning the search indexes for the Thai language that may be able to help
	
TIA
 
Regards

Alex Shepherd

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