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

[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]
  https://www.google.com/search?q=Taiwan+site%3Az-brary.com

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On 12/08/2011 03:03 PM, smurfett at gmail.com wrote:
> 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
>>


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