Thanks Mohamed for give more description about our same problem

I wish we can find a solution for this problem for all the users of koha in the Arab world

while I'm searching i find something about the " أ إ آ"  letters to considers them all as "ا " 
and I find something about the suffix " ة ه "

the solution is to edit the  words-icu.xml file and add these lines :

for أ آ إ :
  <transliterate rule="  [\u0623 \u0625 \u0622] > \u0627 " />

and for the ة ه   suffix add :
  <transliterate rule="ه > ة"/>

and for the ي ى  suffix add :
  <transliterate rule=" ى > ي "/>

 I didn't try this I wish you try and tell me

but about ignoring the الـ  letters in words i didn't find how to do this

I wish someone can help us about this

best regards


On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:39 AM, mh_zalabany@hotmail.com <mh_zalabany@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi karam
I think this issue is very important to all users who use Arabic language
We need to know what the important modifications in Zebra index And koha files to index the arabic words without suffix and prifex
or searsh with root word using zebra

I will give you example
We need to search for word (al-madrasah) this mean school
We have tow parts (al) mean (the)and (madrasah ) and the last caracter (h) may have tow forms( ه ة ) we need when we search for madrasa get madrasah and al-madrasah with all its forms
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----- Reply message -----
From: "Karam Qubsi" <karamqubsi@gmail.com>
To: "Koha" <Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz>, <Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: [Koha] need help in zebra indexing for Arabic words
Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 11:12 am


Hi All

I sent this email to the zebra mailing list

I wish that koha will support suffix and prefix in the arabic search by
default  in the future

I wish if you have any Idea about the solution for this

Best regards
Karam.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:20 AM
Subject: need help in transliterate rule
To: zebralist@lists.indexdata.dk


Hi all ,
I'm new to zebra , and using it in "koha" ILS

in the Arabic language there is some letter come before the words or after
them these letters we don't need to index in our index
I will give you an example :
in English we can say : the car...
in Arabic the same is : السيارة
if you note that the letter in Red is "the" and it's ignored in English
search  but in Arabic search we need the zebra to find every record that
have " the word " or just "word" الكلمة or كلمة

so how to define that to zebra

thanks a lot
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