[Koha-devel] Multi-Language marc bib/auth & Policy, Koha Architecture

[massoud alshareef]

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
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