[Koha] Multilingual Searching and ICU Chains

[Ere Maijala]

Hi,

I might start to sound like a salesman, but the Elasticsearch indexing
code in Koha handles and indexes alternate script fields (880)
automatically in the correct search fields. :)

Regards,
Ere

Katrin Fischer kirjoitti 22.11.2019 klo 11.44:
> Hi Charles,
> 
> if ICU with Zebra is set up correctly, you should be able to search for
> the records using the original script (as cataloged) without any further
> setup. If the original script is in 880 only the keyword search will
> include them by default. But this is not related to ICU - the problem is
> that indexing is not set up to include the 880 xxx in the corresponding
> indexes.
> 
> If you want to search transliterated forms or need some other specific
> things, adjustments to the chains might be needed.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Katrin
> 
> On 20.11.19 20:39, Charles Kelley wrote:
>> Hello, all!
>>
>>      I am developing a catalog of multilingual, multiscript materials:
>> Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese,
>> Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Vietnamese, to name but a few. Since both
>> Koha
>> and MarcEdit are UTF8, I can enter the cataloging records and edit
>> them in
>> their appropriate script.
>>
>>      What I cannot do is to search them. I have seen on the Koha
>> Community
>> wiki is that ICU chains have to be configured. Here's the link:
>> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/ICU_Chains_Library. I also found an
>> exchange about this:
>> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2012-January/031714.html.
>>
>>      Is one to infer that the ICU chain has to be configured for each
>> writing system? Are there other multilingual libraries that have
>> implemented multilingual, multiscript searching in Koha and how did
>> they do
>> so?
>>
>>      Many thanks for your help in this matter.
>>
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Ere Maijala
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