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

[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 requirements,
making it scale well to multi-library consortial environments).  In terms
of functionality, they are largely equivalent.  You may want to check out
http://opensource.califa.org/features for a feature comparison; it's a
little out of date (Koha is currently at 3.6 release, working on 3.8), but
it would likely serve as a solid starting point.

For the requirements you've listed, either program would work well for
you.  I'd lean towards Koha, as it is currently used in many more parts of
the world than Evergreen, and that would help with your
internationalization.  I say this acknowledging my bias up front (I'm
currently the Quality Assurance Manager for the Koha community).

There are open demos of both systems; check them out, ask questions, and
find the one that works best for you!

Cheers,


-Ian

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:21 AM, <smurfett at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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 software support other
> languages, in searches, cataloging, pulling down data from z39.30 servers
> from other countries, and webopac interfaces.
>
> thanks!
> nancy
>
>
> On 12/7/11 7:50 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
>
> 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
>
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>  Oversight Board & Communications Committee / Evergreen
> (707) 763-6869 // Lori.Ayre at galecia.com
>
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>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:10 PM, <smurfett at 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 all the texts into Chinese?
>>
>> thanks
>> nancy
>>
>
>


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