Robin just pointed out that Debian Jessie (8) will be switching to 2.0.59 and I noticed that Ubuntu Vivid (15.04) will as well. That means that Koha package installs that use ICU on these newer OSes will start running into this problem as well. (Actually, most newer OSes will have this issue. OpenSuse 13.2 released in November 2014 is using 2.0.59.) So... that's not good. We first ran into this problem because of a barcode search "ABC-12345" was returning all barcodes that started with "ABC". However, you'll run into this problem for a lot of keyword and title searches. For instance "Mont-Royal" will return all records containing "Mont". Note that this is only for ICU. If you're using CHR, "Mont-Royal" will just get you records that have "Mont" and "Royal" in them (since Zebra/YAZ breaks on hyphens when using CHR character mapping). Anyway, I've sent an email to Indexdata, so I'm going to try pursuing this with them as much as possible... David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007

-----Original Message----- From: Colin Campbell [mailto:colin.campbell@ptfs-europe.com] Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 8:03 PM To: David Cook Cc: 'Colin Campbell'; koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Subject: Re: Zebra hyphen truncating search

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 05:16:05PM +1100, David Cook wrote:

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Hi Colin!

I stumbled across an email you sent to the Indexdata Zebralist in 2013: http://lists.indexdata.dk/pipermail/zebralist/2013-August/002576.html

Were you ever able to solve those problems?

I think its still the case. It can be further complicated by what the settings in the system are and how Search.pm interprets them in constructing the search. Especially the relevancy options.

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Also, what version of Zebra were you running? I've noticed this problem with Zebra using 2.0.59, but I haven't been able to produce it using Zebra 2.0.47. I had the exact same configuration files, MySQL database, and Zebra indexes. Here's an example:

It would be the current releases from indexdata on Debian and also built from source on Fedora. The indexdata debian packages track the source closely.

Cheers Colin

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