if any one use the attached file for the Arabic koha
he will not find problem that we talked about :)  ( the prefix ) - I will develop it some way to support suffix (in arabic )

copy and past the file in this target :
/etc/koha/zebradb/etc/

Best regards
karam

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all
I solved this in zebra by customizing the transliterate rule  in  words-icu.xml file

I will share a complete file solve this in Arabic soon !

the solution is by adding the following : (for example ) : I will not use here the Arabic characters  to make it more simple :

if we have language X and in this language we write in connected letter but some letter is not important in the search process , so we have this word  " theword " in the search the searcher is not interested in finding the  but he is absolutely search for "word "

so I solve this by following this guide : http://userguide.icu-project.org/transforms/general/rules#TOC-Context

and make zebra convert thew to w
and we may have to make this for every letter thea to a _ theb to b >>>> thez to z

like in the following :
  <transliterate rule="{ thea > a "/>
  <transliterate rule="{ thew > w "/>
...
...
..
  <transliterate rule="{ thez > z "/>
so if some one search for theword the zebra will convert thew to w so searching for word = theword :D

and for Arabic :
  <transliterate rule="{ ÇáÇ > Ç "/>
  <transliterate rule="{ ÇáÈ > È "/>
.....
...
...
..

  <transliterate rule="{ Çáí > í "/>
so searching for  " ÈÍË"
will find  "ÇáÈÍË"

and this will solve the whole problem :)
I wish this will help you Mohamed

Thank you Frédéric , Paul

Karam


On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes it's not a koha problem
but I think there is some people who fix this in zebra ( or maybe it's just some more options to add in zebra files )

Massoud Alshareef  from KnowledgeWare Technologies mention that they have do that and solve the problem
in : http://koha-community.org/category/koha-news/support-company-press/

I wish if he can help us in this (cc to him )

I heard about solr that it's very good but I didn't search about arabic support if better than zebra but I see this now :
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LanguageAnalysis#Arabic

anyway thanks a lot and I will search more about that if I find some solution I will share it with you


best regards
Karam .



On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> wrote:
Le 25/10/2012 13:53, Frédéric Demians a écrit :
> No, you don't need help, you need to contract a developer to do the job.
What Frederic is explaining here is that you can't achieve this with the
current Koha. And I suspect it's not a koha problem, but a zebra/icu one.

Side comment = we're working on integration of a new search engine layer
(solr). Maybe solr will fix this problem ?

Anyway, we're looking for some funding for continuing the work on search
layer (see:
http://wiki.koha-community.org/w/index.php?title=C_%26_P_Search_Rewrite_RFC)


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