Dear All,
Koha is a good choice for libraries in
Kerala.
But the possibility of using Koha for creating
catalogue of Malayalam books (due to its Unicode compliance) has not
been explored much because of poor knowledge of most of the librarians
about Unicode, it seems.
Dr P Mukhopadhyay ( University of Burdwan), a prominent
practitioner of Koha, clarifies that Koha can be used for
creating searchable catalogue of books in Malayalam, if we use utf-8 encoding
for character set and the mysql supports utf-8 as native character
set.
Kindly inform me, if anyone is using Koha 2.2.9 on
Windows for Malayalam catalogue preparation.
Regards,
K Rajasekharan
Kerala Institute of Local
Administration
Thrissur