Re: [Koha] Help from people experienced in Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK languages

[Yuval Hager]

On 12/10/2015 07:35 AM, Galen Charlton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Tajoli Zeno  wrote:
>> The link: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14759
>>
>>
>> Please try to join the discussion also if you don't know perl, but if you
>> know well one of those:
>> -  Arabic alphabet and language
>> -  Hebrew alphabet and language
>> -  CJK writing systems and languages
> 
> In addition, it would be great to have input from Koha users using
> *any* language that contains diacritics, as there is a functionality
> question underlying the discussion.
> 
> At the moment, the module in question is used to remove diacritics
> when automatically generating a public catalog username -- e.g., if a
> patron whose surname is Müller is registered with a Koha database,
> would they expect, based on their use of other websites, that their
> username could include the diacritic (e.g., "müller")? Or would they
> expect that it would never include the diacritics (e.g., "muller")?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Galen
> 

I don't know about umlauts, but at least in Hebrew it would be fine to remove
the diacritics. They are mostly unused in adult daily life and I can't imagine
anyone trying to add diacritics to their name (most people even don't know how
to type those). And if the odd person comes along who tries that, removing
those would be totally fine.

I'll jump over the other discussion see if I can help. Although I'm a Koha
user/admin and I know Hebrew, I don't mix the two :)
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[Koha] Certain single character searches fail in koha 3.22.00 but work fine in 3.02.02

[Andreas Roussos]

Hello everyone,

We are running koha 3.22.00 in a development VM and have a problem when
making single character searches (i.e. searches that would normally return
a lot of results). Oddly enough, our production koha which is on 3.02.02
does not suffer from the same issue (please see the relevant screenshots
http://i.imgur.com/gFPtLBi.png http://i.imgur.com/ehJiURu.png).

I followed the instructions in
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_Zebra and confirmed
that the Zebra daemon does indeed return a result set when making a single
character search (by issuing the "f α" command for example). So, I think
the actual problem must lie with one of the Perl scripts that process the
data fed back from Zebra/MySQL.

How do we figure out which Perl script is choking on invalid UTF8 data?
Is there a way to find which biblios/authorities contain invalid characters
and to correct them?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Kind regards,
Andreas
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[Koha] Help from people experienced in Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK languages

[Tajoli Zeno]

Hi to all,

starting from a simple problem, "Text::Unaccent doesn't works on 
RH/Centos, how to replace it", it starts a good discussion about support

of complex UTF-8 languges.

The discussion needs help from people with experience
in  Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK languages

The link: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14759


Please try to join the discussion also if you don't know perl, but if 
you know well one of those:

-  Arabic alphabet and language
-  Hebrew alphabet and language
-  CJK writing systems and languages

Bye
Zeno Tajoli

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Re: [Koha] Help from people experienced in Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK languages

[Anthony Mao]

2015-12-10 23:35 GMT+08:00 Galen Charlton :
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Tajoli Zeno  wrote:
>> The link: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14759
>>
>>
>> Please try to join the discussion also if you don't know perl, but if you
>> know well one of those:
>> -  Arabic alphabet and language
>> -  Hebrew alphabet and language
>> -  CJK writing systems and languages
>
> In addition, it would be great to have input from Koha users using
> *any* language that contains diacritics, as there is a functionality
> question underlying the discussion.
>
> At the moment, the module in question is used to remove diacritics
> when automatically generating a public catalog username -- e.g., if a
> patron whose surname is Müller is registered with a Koha database,
> would they expect, based on their use of other websites, that their
> username could include the diacritic (e.g., "müller")? Or would they
> expect that it would never include the diacritics (e.g., "muller")?

I am not sure what happen in Koha. But Koha developer may find some
clue from this old document. "The Absolute Minimum Every Software
Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character
Sets (No Excuses!) / by Joel Spolsky
Wednesday, October 08, 2003, http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
There is a a Chinese version
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~p92005/Joel/Unicode.html

Did Koha deal with Unicode properly from the very beginning?


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[Koha] To link a pdf file in /usr/share/opac/htdocs

[Vimal Kumar V.]

Dear Friends,
We would like to link PDF file in 856$u
PDF Files copies in /usr/share/opac/htdocs

Present practice is that give ip address along with pdf.
e.g. http://10.26.1.82/report.pdf

How can we give relative path in 856$u, i.e. without ip ?

Regards,
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Mahatma Gandhi University Library
Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560
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Re: [Koha] Help from people experienced in Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK languages

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Tajoli Zeno  wrote:
> The link: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14759
>
>
> Please try to join the discussion also if you don't know perl, but if you
> know well one of those:
> -  Arabic alphabet and language
> -  Hebrew alphabet and language
> -  CJK writing systems and languages

In addition, it would be great to have input from Koha users using
*any* language that contains diacritics, as there is a functionality
question underlying the discussion.

At the moment, the module in question is used to remove diacritics
when automatically generating a public catalog username -- e.g., if a
patron whose surname is Müller is registered with a Koha database,
would they expect, based on their use of other websites, that their
username could include the diacritic (e.g., "müller")? Or would they
expect that it would never include the diacritics (e.g., "muller")?

Regards,

Galen
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