Hi,
currently there is no way to load bibliographic frameworks or other things in additional languages into the database and make the display obey your chosen language on the bottom of the page. You can load sample data in different languages during install – this is available for German including translated frameworks.
At the moment only one language at a time is supported for the database based data.
Other exemples for that are authorized values, item types, borrower categories or notices.
Katrin
From: koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of massoud alshareef
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 6:52 AM
To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org; koha-translate@lists.koha-community.org
Subject: [Koha-devel] Multi-Language marc bib/auth & Policy,Koha Architecture
Hello,
As of Koha 3.2.x, we are using Koha as a single language ILS in marc tags and policies, where
marc bib tags, auth tags, policy descriptions are displayed in one language
only at an instance. As shown below with our Arabic Koha 3.2.3 installed,
you will notice that in spite that the interface is in English
(Left-to-Right) orientation the marc fields tags and policy elements
descriptions are still displayed in Arabic because there are only single fields structure to carry these elements.
marc Bibliographic tags:
http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-MARCdetail.pl?biblionumber=197
marc Authority tags:
http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.pl?authid=6771
<http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.pl?authid=3432>Library,
Branches Groups:
http://alshafallah.maktabat-online.net:8080/cgi-bin/koha/admin/branches.pl
I recall hat the issue of having Koha supporting more than one language, for
its marc fields tags and policy descriptive names in one instance, has been
raised before, but until today we are not sure if something had been done
about it or the issue is still in the pipelines for future Koha releases.
Please, does anyone know more about this issue ? I recall that I have read
in one of the Koha digest posts that a German Koha was built with English
and German infrastructure to allow using either language in all of its user
interface including marc tags and policy descriptive names. Thanks for any
guidance on this.
Thanks
Massoud M. AlShareef,KnowledgeWare Technologies