[Koha-devel] RE: MARC Label in English

[Alan Hopkinson]

I hope that a version of KOHA will be done for UNIMARC as well as MARC21. It is widely used in Europe, the Far East and developing countries particularly outside the Anglo-American world.

Alan Hopkinson
Chair, IFLA Permanent UNIMARC Committee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maolins at gmail.com [mailto:maolins at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 9:46 AM
> To: koha-devel at nongnu.org
> Cc: Alan Hopkinson
> Subject: Re: MARC Label in English
> 
> 
> Hi all and Mr. Hopkinson from PUC,
> 
> 
> 2006/3/3, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at free.fr>:
> > ë‘cµ a ¨¦crit :
> > > Before going further I was confused with Koha on
> > > "MARC tag structure admin for default MARC framework".
> > >
> > > The label is in French only. Could I change it to English?
> >
> > During install, you have choosen "UNIMARC". UNIMARC tables are in 
> > french only, where MARC21 tables are in english only.
> 
> Can I load UNIMARC English table up for Koha?
> 
> We, China and Taiwan library authorities, do not use MARC21 
> for non-English materials.
> 
> I hate to tell you that most of Chinese librarian can not 
> understand French.
> 
> 
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> 
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