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

[smurfett at gmail.com]

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 where I can find a list of public z39.50 servers?  I need to 
find one in Taiwan, otherwise it'll be very hard for us to catalog our 
collection.

thanks!
nancy

On 12/8/11 12:10 PM, Anoop Atre wrote:
> 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 so
> can't speak to that solution.
>
> On 12/07/2011 11:21 PM, smurfett at gmail.com wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Evergreen and Koha match well and completely support the requirements you
> mention above, Koha has a few more languages with different degrees of
> completion [ http://translate.koha-community.org/ ]. Evergreen currently
> has translations for Armenian, Czech, English (Canada), English (US),
> French (Canada), Russian, and Spanish. Chinese as Dan/Ben mentioned has
> been previously available and needs updating/inclusion into the current
> releases. I'm sure you'd love to see your name listed as the contributor
> who finished the Evergreen Chinese translation : )
>
> I'd say you should give Evergreen a try and also check out the other
> options, there are robust & helpful communities for each of them who can
> help you along. As someone who is comfortable with Linux you will be fine
> getting started. I'd begin with the demos but getting your hands dirty and
> installing Evergreen (2.1 or latest) would give you the best feel for the
> system as I'm sure you would have guessed.
>
> There is an older virtual machine Dan Scott setup which you could download
> and give a try if you want an easier path to testing it locally and even
> try upgrading to 2.1 [ http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php#evergreen_vm
> ]. Here is some sample data Mike Peters made available [
> http://help.evergreen.lib.in.us/generate-demodata.tar.gz ] and instructions
> to load them into the database [ http://paste.lisp.org/display/124819 ].
>
> Lately installing Evergreen has gotten easier but definitely needs an
> understanding of Linux, right now most of us run it on Debian Squeeze or
> Ubuntu Lucid. Installing Koha from scratch is about the same complexity, of
> course it is available as a Debian package which helps quite a bit. We have
> been trying to get Evergreen packaged into Debian and made some headway
> over this past summer but not there yet. Setting up the library specific
> rules is where Koha gets to be a bit more straight forward as I understand,
> I have not looked into that much so this is based on what I've heard from
> others.
>
> As for comparing the systems, I should mention that the website Ian
> mentioned lists an older version of Evergreen also...we are at 2.1 and 2.2
> is being worked on currently. It's hard to really keep up comparisons
> between fast moving open source systems on a minute level, but if you want
> a big picture comparison the website does a decent job. Also I'd say just
> because Koha is used more than Evergreen in the non-western world doesn't
> make it the first choice, just means Koha has been around longer and being
> the first open source library management system certainly gave it a wider
> market adoption.
>
> Hope this helps and I didn't ramble on too much!
>
> Cheers
>