Here are the steps to tune Koha to search Indian languages precisely.
I tried these steps on Koha 3.12.x installation based on Debian packages.
I borrowed these steps from Koustubha Kale posting (http://tinyurl.com/kza7l84) in Koha Discussion forum.
I made slight changes in the instructions. Lets start tuning...
Open a terminal and apply following commands one by one.
Install additional packages
Install additional packages
sudo su
apt-get install libicu-dev yaz-icu
Copy few files to a new location
cd /usr/share/idzebra-2.0/tab/
cp icu.idx phrases-icu.xml string.chr words-icu.xml /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/
cp /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/words-icu.xml /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/icu.xml
Open following file,
leafpad /etc/koha/zebradb/etc/icu.xml
change <icu_chain locale="en"> to <icu_chain locale="en_IN.UTF-8">
Folder ownership
sudo chown -R library-koha:library-koha /etc/koha/zebradb/etc
gedit /etc/koha/sites/library/zebra-biblios.cfg
add line at the bottom of the file,
index: icu.idx
Restart zebra server
sudo su
koha-restart-zebra library
Rebuild zebra index
sudo koha-rebuild-zebra -f -v library
Turn Off
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