[Koha] Multilingual Searching and ICU Chains

[Rasheed A.]

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On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 12:45 PM Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>
wrote:

> 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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