2010/4/1 Vijay Shrestha <shresthavijay@gmail.com>

Hi all,

I have successfully configured KOHA in my organization. We uploaded records in Koha as well. Our records in both Roman and Devanagari script. While searching in Roman, the result displaying by KOHA is fined but while we search in local script(Devanagari), it shows unexpected results. So, I will request to all if there anything to do for showing correct result when there is given local language input. Our record is look like in MARC standard as
=LDR  00000nam\a2200000ka\4500
=008  090922s1956\\\\np\\\\\\\\\\\\000\0\nep\d
=100  1\$aरेग्मी, कोशराज.,$gpañcai Bājā$qरामकुमार पाँडे.
=100  1\$aRegmī, Kośarāj.,$gpañcai Bājā$qरामकुमार पाँडे.
...
...
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You haven't mentioned whether you are using Zebra.
To search successfully in Devanagari you will have to use Zebra.
You can apply http://git.biblibre.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=koha;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b4068c1da33de36019bf4192150b6234bb8c7dbf;hp=a739ed37ef5e289cf6ac9815acd9fc6ede052bfc this patch to make necessary changes to you Zebra Configuration..

Or if you are not comfortable applying patches etc you can follow following procedure..

#sudo apt-get install libicu-dev libicu38 yaz-icu

Copy following files from /usr/share/idzebra-2.0/tab/
to /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/
icu.idx
phrases-icu.xml
string.chr
words-icu.xml

Copy /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/words-icu.xml to /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/icu.xml

Edit /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/icu.xml change <icu_chain locale="en"> to <icu_chain locale="en_IN.UTF-8">

Save and change ownership of all copied files to koha:koha

#sudo chown -R koha:koha /etc/koha/zebradb/etc

Edit /etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-biblios.cfg
add line
index: icu.idx

Restart zebra server and queue daemons
#sudo /etc/init.d/koha-zebra-daemon restart
#sudo /etc/init.d/koha-zebraqueue-daemon restart

Rebuild zebra index
#sudo KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r -v

Using yaz-client to verify zebra is working
#az-client
z>auth kohauser zebrastripes
z>open unix:/var/run/koha/zebradb/bibliosocket
z>base biblios
z>f ”पाँडे”
z>s
z>q


Adjusting Koha System Preferences to correctly search our multilingual data
In Koha staff client
Home → Administration → System Preferences → Searching
Turn off QueryFuzzy ( maybe and QueryWeightFields)

Regards,
Koustubha Kale
Anant Corporation

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