Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-08 Thread Ian Walls
Nancy, I'd say the main differences between Koha and Evergreen are international usage (Koha is bigger in non-Western parts of the world than Evergreen, to the best of my knowledge) and structural design differences (Evergreen is built on a more complex, but very robust, set of system

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-08 Thread Anoop Atre
Nancy Since we are on the Evergreen list I'd probably have stuck to answering your initial question. We do want more folks trying out Evergreen : ) In any case as has been pointed out both Evergreen and Koha are capable of fulfilling your needs. I don't have much experience with openbiblio

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-08 Thread smurfett
Hi I will definitely give both a try. I don't mind doing translation as I need this in Traditional Chinese and you guys might not have that. I need a software that may let me switch between languages on the OPAC end so that we can support users w/ different language needs. Do you know

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-08 Thread Anoop Atre
Both Evergreen and Koha allow switching between languages on the OPAC end. I've looked at these two sites previously for lists of z39.50 servers http://irspy.indexdata.com/ [Taiwan Search] http://is.gd/Ia6N6A http://www.z-brary.com/ [Taiwan Search]

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-07 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Evergreen does support Unicode. I don't think there is anyone running Evergreen in Chinese yet. But I do know that Koha has been implemented in Chinese. You might want to check out koha-community.org for another open source library management system option. Lori

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-07 Thread Dan Scott
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM, smurf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi We're a small bilingual school looking for an open source software to catalogue our library books. which are in Chinese and English.  Does the software support unicode searches and have multi-lingual support where I can translate

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-07 Thread Dan Scott
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:10 AM,  smurf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi We're a small bilingual school looking for an open source software to catalogue our library books. which are in Chinese and English.  Does the software support

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-07 Thread Anoop Atre
Nancy Welcome to the community! It would be great to have a new contributor to the Evergreen project on board and see the old translations updated. Cheers On 12/07/2011 11:24 AM, Dan Scott wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Dan Scottd...@coffeecode.net wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-07 Thread smurfett
Hi Thanks for all the replies! So waht's the main difference between koha, open-ils, and openbiblio? Do they all tend to do the same thing? I'm a tech person so ease of installation isn't an issue for me (in fact I like linux install the best). But I'm trying to find out how much these

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] does the software support unicode searches?

2011-12-06 Thread smurfett
Hi We're a small bilingual school looking for an open source software to catalogue our library books. which are in Chinese and English. Does the software support unicode searches and have multi-lingual support where I can translate all the texts into Chinese? thanks nancy