How to Enable Unicode / UTF-8 in Koha and Zebra

How to Enable Unicode / UTF-8 in Koha and Zebra

To enable Zebra to search unicode multilingual data

We need icu installed

·      libicu-dev

·      libicu38

·      yaz-icu

Copy following files from /usr/share/idzebra-2.0/tab/ to /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/

·      icu.idx

·      phrases-icu.xml

·      string.chr

·      words-icu.xml

·      Copy /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/words-icu.xml to /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/icu.xml

·      Edit /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/icu.xml change <icu_chain locale=”en”> to <icu_chain locale=”en_US.UTF-8″>

·      Save and changes and grant ownership of all copied files to koha:koha

• Sudo chown -R koha:koha /etc/koha/zebradb/etc

·      Edit /etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-biblios.cfg add line index: icu.idx

·      Edit /etc/koha/zebradb/zebra-authorities.cfg add line index: icu.idx

·      Restart zebra server and queue daemons

• sudo /etc/init.d/koha-zebra-daemon restart
• sudo /etc/init.d/koha-zebraqueue-daemon restart

·      Rebuild zebra index

• cd /usr/share/koha/bin/migration_tools ./rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r

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