Hello again everybody,after some struggle I finally succeeded installing Koha, configuring it and working with English records using MARC21.
All under both Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04. Now my problem is that my records will be 99% in Arabic.Thanks to the help of many of you I found this valuable past message that outlines the steps for installing Chinese charsets. But this did not solve my problem 'cause:
For this:
* install ICU (unicode library from IBM)
* activate it by editing default.idx file, and :
comment this line:
#charmap word-phrase-utf.chr
add this line:
icuchain icu.xml
Your icu.xml should look like this:
<icu_chain locale="fr-FR">
<transliterate rule="\'>\ "/>
<transliterate rule="[:Number:] { '-'> '' "/>
<transform rule="[:Control:] Any-Remove"/>
<tokenize rule="l"/>
<transform rule="[[:WhiteSpace:][:Punctuation:]] Remove"/>
<transform rule="NFD"/>
<transform rule="[:Nonspacing Mark:] Remove"/>
<transform rule="NFC"/>
<display/>
<casemap rule="l"/>
</icu_chain>
1) Install ICU. What debian package provides ICU? Is it this?i libicu42 4.2.1-3ubuntu0.10.10.1 International Components for Unicode ii yaz-icu 4.2.25-1indexdata ICU utility for the Z39.50 toolkit
or am I missing something, maybe? 2) defatult.idx: is the one under /etc/koha/zebradb/etc?3) I'm unsure about the meaning AND location of the icu.xml file. Should it be placed under /etc/koha/zebradb/etc as well? What should contain in the case of Arabic? I suppose that the tranform rules will not be the same as French... does anybody have a template for Arabic?
4) after all these aspects will be fixed, how do I make myself sure that everything works fine?
Best! Stefano _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
