On 11/04/2013 13:08, Dagne Woldie, MS/HS Library Assistant wrote: <snip> > If koha enable us to catalog Ethiopian collection. That books written in > Amharic language. > > Please if any one who has such experience. please, please/ </snip>
There are two options you can use. Koha can use the unicode character set so therefore, you should be able to enter the characters in Amharic. There are various options for entering Unicode characters. The other option is to use what is called transliteration, as is done in most libraries. The Library of Congress uses this transliteration table http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/amharic.pdf. If you want to see if another library in Worldcat http://www.worldcat.org has already cataloged an item in Amharic, you will use these transliteration tables to search, e.g. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/745610236 I am sure that other countries use other transliteration tables, but these are the ones that I know. I don't know anything about Amharic, though. -- *James Weinheimer* [email protected] *First Thus* http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/ *Cooperative Cataloging Rules* http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/ *Cataloging Matters Podcasts* http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.html _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
