[Koha-devel] proper sorting order and search for Swedish characters and ISBN search

[Katrin]

Thx for sharing!

On 01.02.2017 15:18, Gaetan Boisson wrote:
> Digging this back up as we finally found a solution. And by "we" i 
> mean Fridolin Somers, whose knowledge of ICU, zebra and indexing never 
> ceases to amaze me!
>
> Setting the ICU locale to sv-SE was not enough it seems, because this 
> still transliterated å, ä, ö, Å, Ä and Ö to a, o, A and O.
>
> We just had to add a rule to exclude them from the transliteration:
>
> <transform rule="[^åäöÅÄÖ] NFD"/><!-- do not undiactric some 
> characters -->
>
> Meh, sounds easy enough now!
>
> Hopefully this will come in handy to someone.
>
>
> Le 12/01/2017 à 02:51, David Cook a écrit :
>> Considering the folk at IndexData are Danish, perhaps they could provide
>> some insight more directly.
>>
>> David Cook
>> Systems Librarian
>> Prosentient Systems
>> 72/330 Wattle St
>> Ultimo, NSW 2007
>> Australia
>>
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>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-
>>> bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Colin Campbell
>>> Sent: Friday, 25 November 2016 3:32 AM
>>> To: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] proper sorting order and search for Swedish
>>> characters and ISBN search
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 05:20:03PM +0100, Gaetan Boisson wrote:
>>>>   Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have been trying several things to try to sort this out, and haven't
>>>> found a way (yet) that would avoid ugly compromises.
>>>>
>>>> The issue is: in Swedish ä, ö and å are separate letters. Not variants
>>>> of a and o. This means that searching for å shouldn't bring up a. When
>>>> sorting, they belong to the very end of the alphabet, after z, not 
>>>> along
>> a and
>>> o.
>>> In ICU, setting the locale parameter to "sv" (swedish) should do 
>>> this. I
>> cant
>>> seem to get this to work in yaz-icu but there are tests in the yaz code
>> base for
>>> passing locale to strings. However I'm not sure how to correctly 
>>> specify
>> this for
>>> yaz the documentation is way too sketchy.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
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