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Re: [Koha] Chinese support?
by Chris Cormack 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

kael(a)email.arizona.edu wrote: >> Han, Yan wrote: >> >>> That is right. >>> >>> Look at this >>> >> http://arrakis.library.arizona.edu:59/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=10 >> 48 >> >>> You can only search "22269; | 20013;& | &" >>> >> Kia Ora ano >> >> Further to my last email, do you have access to the Koha mysql database. >> If so can you please do a select * from biblio where biblionumber=1048; >> >> Is that where the 22269; is stored? or is it in the marc_word table? > > > When I do the SQL query on the on the biblio table I get (tranfered to a > hopefully email-friendly layout): > +---------------+------------------+ > | biblionumber | 1048 | > | author | 韩 | > | title | 中国 | > | unititle | | > | notes | NULL | > | serial | NULL | > | seriestitle | | > | copyrightdate | NULL | > | timestamp | 20051006163507 | > | abstract | NULL | > +---------------+------------------+ > > The '22269;' is also stored in the marc_word table: > +----------------+--------+ > | bibid | 1048 | > | tagsubfield | 245a | > | tagorder | 11 | > | subfieldorder | 1 | > | word | 22269; | > | sndx_word | 2000 | > +----------------+--------+ > Ah ha. So the biblio table is storing the entity properly, eg title 中国 So when the record is displayed it displays just fine. But marc_word (which is what is searched on) has had the &# stripped. So it looks like its a propblem with the routines storing data in the marc_word table. Ill look into the routines that do the storage and look for a fix. Anyone else who knows more about the MARC tables and/or unicode want to yell out now and tell me im on the wrong track? Or where to start looking? Chris -- Chris Cormack Katipo Communications Programmer www.katipo.co.nz 027 4500 789

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Re: [Koha] Chinese support?
by Chris Cormack 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Han, Yan wrote: > That is right. > > Look at this http://arrakis.library.arizona.edu:59/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=1048 > You can only search "22269; | 20013;& | &" > Hmm What that implies to me then, is that when you search, it needs to be converted to the right value eg 22269; before the search is spawned. Ill shift this conversation to koha-devel now, and reply in more detail Chris -- Chris Cormack Katipo Communications Programmer www.katipo.co.nz 027 4500 789

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Re: [Koha] Chinese support?
by Chris Cormack 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Han, Yan wrote: > That is right. > > Look at this http://arrakis.library.arizona.edu:59/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=1048 > You can only search "22269; | 20013;& | &" > Kia Ora ano Further to my last email, do you have access to the Koha mysql database. If so can you please do a select * from biblio where biblionumber=1048; Is that where the 22269; is stored? or is it in the marc_word table? Chris -- Chris Cormack Katipo Communications Programmer www.katipo.co.nz 027 4500 789

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Tagging in Koha OPAC
by Matti Lassila 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

A little feature suggestion to the future version of Koha OPAC: While ago I read a book called The Power to Name by Hope A. Olson. In the book Olson proposes an user contributed classification system in library catalogue as a way to empower people. She critizises the bias found in subject representation found in library catalogues and makes a skectch of a system where users are able to make connections between books and add their own subject headings. And look what we have today - The Library Thing (www.librarything.com) - an online service which enables users to catalogue their own books and add metadata, like tags, to the books, like in del.icio.us or in flickr. Just like Olson imagined. I think that we should add the tagging feature to Koha as soon as possible. Then Koha could be the first tagging-enabled ILS and the publicity would be huge - great PR to the project and to the open source movement overall. There's an open source tagging module Freetag written in PHP (http://www.freetag.org/) . It could serve as a starting point. Best regards, Matti Lassila --------- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ---Mark Twain

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Fines Broken
by Joshua Ferraro 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hi all, I just discovered (much to my dismay) that fines are broken in the 2.2.x and greater series. At first glance, one reason for this is that the categoryitem table has been removed. So this is a good example of the kind of QA problems we're having with this project. It's going to take many hours for someone to hunt back for the history of this issue, find out who broke what when, then figure out how to fix it, then to commit the fix. There's got to be a better way. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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Koha 2.2.4 then 2.2.5 (roadmap)
by Paul POULAIN 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi, As discussed before on koha-devel. After asking french libraries, it seems that everybody want Koha 2.2.x branch to be rock solid & accept delaying new features on Koha 3.0 As Release Manager, I think I can decide that Koha 2.2.5 and next version will be only bugfixes. So I decide it ;-) Sometimes, it's complex to decide wether code is bugfix or new feature. For example, one of my customer consider that being unable to reorder subfields in the MARC editor is a bug. It's the 1st one. So, if you have ideas on how to decide wether something is a bugfix or a feature, let me know here ;-) About roadmap : * I'm installing Koha 2.2.4RC2 (internal) at a library. Unless they have problems, 2.2.4 should be here on friday. Maybe next monday. * 2.2.5 will arrive at the 1st bloquing bugfix or in 3 months (the 1st occuring) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Setting warnings ON
by Paul POULAIN 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

To set warnings on, just add the following line to your virtual host : SetEnv PERL5OPT -w gives a LOT of warnings now, hunting begins ;-) -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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Itemtype and MARC21 Quandry
by Joshua Ferraro 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hi all, So here's a problem. Say a library has a system that allows a single MARC21 record to specify record types within the record in the 852$6 and allows issuing rules to happen on the item level rather than on the record level. I'm not sure if this is valid MARC21 practice, but I do know of at lease one system that works this way. When such a library converts to Koha, only one of the itemtypes is valid for the whole record, meaning that they will lose the ability to define issuing rules at the item level. The only solution seems to be to break up each record into multiple records, one for each itemtype (as a temporary fix). So I'm wondering, should we be defining issuing rules at the item level in Koha 3.0 for MARC21? or should we continue to define them soley on the record level? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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Re: [Koha] Sticky due date (Specify due date) not working
by Rachel Hamilton-Williams 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Hi > I've changed my template to the default one and the sticky date worked. > Do you think its possible to fix the template bug, because I really like > the NPL one It may be already I'm not sure - but you might want to contact the NPL guys and ask them if there is a fix Cheers Rachel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rachel Hamilton-Williams [mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz] > Sent: Friday, 30 September 2005 10:20 AM > To: Amanda Steen > Subject: Re: [Koha] Sticky due date (Specify due date) not working > > HI > > >>I have version 2.2.3, Linux at the moment. >>I'm using the NPL template. >>I previously tried to screen dump my issuing rules but it didn't work. >>But they are fairly straight forward. > > > Just to check - could you try changing to using the default template and > > do the same thing - I do suspect a template bug, easiest way to check is > > with the other tempaltes. > > Cheers > Rachel > > > >>Amanda Steen >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Rachel Hamilton-Williams [mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz] >>Sent: Friday, 30 September 2005 9:42 AM >>To: Amanda Steen >>Cc: koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >>Subject: Re: [Koha] Sticky due date (Specify due date) not working >> >>HI >> >>It might be a template bug - can you please say which version of Koha >>you're using, wether Windows or Linux, and which templates you're > > using. > >>Cheers >>Rachel >> >>Amanda Steen wrote: >> >> >>>Hi there >>> >>>I'm another newy to Koha. >>> >>>I've been through the system parameters and preferences. >>> >>>I'm now up to testing it out to see what it can do, and to writing up >>>instructions for our non-librarian library billets. >>> >>>I'm finding that when I try to set a specific date, the item is issued >> >> >>>to the dates set in the parameters. >>> >>>What have I done wrong? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Amanda Steen >>> >>>Cataloguing Librarian / Campuses Librarian >>> >>>Library >>> >>>Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE >>> >>>P.O. Box 170 >>> >>>Bendigo, 3552 >>> >>>Telephone: (03) 5434 1431 >>> >>>Fax: (03) 5434 1428 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Koha mailing list >>>Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz >>>http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> >> > -- ----------------------------- Rachel Hamilton-Williams General Manager Katipo Communications Ltd Phone: +64-4-934 1285 Mobile: 021 389 128 E-mail: rachel(a)katipo.co.nz Web: www.katipo.co.nz

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New document on kohadocs
by Stephen Hedges 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

A new link to a document has been added to http://www.kohadocs.org -- "Gestion de la bibliothèque du LabSAD avec le logiciel Koha" by Caroline Naget (available in pdf format only). This document is in the General Information section because it covers several aspects of Koha: installing on Gentoo Linux, setting parameters, and use. -- Stephen Hedges Skemotah Solutions, USA www.skemotah.com -- shedges(a)skemotah.com

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