i confirm the search in Arabic is working well and we developed the system to manipulate the special cases in Arabic also but we offer it with charge i think you didn't install the ICU properly
Mohamed El ZalabanyIntegrated library systems consultant Zalabany Knowledge Systems Team© For Libraries and Information systems Development and support [email protected] Mobile: 0111291444 > From: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:28:10 +0300 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Koha] Search of Non-Latin records > > Dear Araik, > > I think no Latin characters indexing and searching remain the > major bottleneck of Koha. I can not imagine a library in the world with > couple books in non Latin characters and I am not sure why > the developer community has not been able to address this. > > We have many books in Arabic and Kurdish in our library and we have not > been able to index them yet. We have tried to find a solution for 4 months > now. We tried all possible direction we got and still when we look for book > Koha will list all of the book with non Latin characters. > > I suggest integrating Google Search API in Koha might solve all the issue > we have. > > DRR > > On 19 November 2012 11:59, Araik Manukyan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear friends, > > > > > > > > Our catalog mainly consists of Armenian records, thus during the > > installation we have chosen to use ICU. Then, after importing some records, > > we have rebuilded the Zebra index. On the console it was written that 7 > > records were indexed. However, when we tried to search for imported > > records, > > nothing was retrieved. But the records are definitely imported, since they > > are visible in the Staged Records. Interestingly, even records in English > > are not being searched. > > > > > > > > In the previous versions of koha we were enabling ICU after the > > installation > > by several manual modfications, but now this does not work too. If we do in > > this way, Koha simply retrieves all existing records in Armenian which is > > of > > course wrong. > > > > > > > > So, it appears that regardless how we enable ICU (during the installation > > or > > aftewards), non-latin records are anyway not being indexed. > > > > > > > > Please, can someone provide us a step-by-step solution? This is essential > > for us. > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Araik. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > [email protected] > > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > > > -- > > *I.T Admin (Dr. D.R. Roshani)* > *Ministry of Higher Education <http://www.mhe-krg.org>* > T. +964.XXX.XXX XXX *|* E. [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
