Dear Mr. K Rajasekharan

It's good to see that you are trying hard to promote Indic script based automated and digital library system. Thanks a lot, I'm not alone in this endeavour. Let me tell you and other interested professioanls that a step-by-step guide has been developed by me for Bengali script based Koha in 2006. This peocess can be extended to any Indic script now (as TDIL developed required virtual keyboard, open type fonts etc; see http://ildc.gov.in/). Koha developer team included this methodology in their official manual and can be acccessed through link http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apbs01.html. The final result of this methodoloy already published as a paper in IASLIC 2006 conference at Roorkee and available from LDL https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/bitstream/1849/409/1/open%20road_main_theme_psm_LDL.pdf.

This paper shows Bengali script based interface of Koha (both user/opac and librarian/intranet), Search interface (simple/advance), ISBD display format of Bengali script based documents, ISO-2709 based export/import of Bengali script based documents.

IFLA also reported this development in IFLA SET Bulletin July 2008 issue (see page 21). It can be accessed through http://www.ifla.org/VII/s23/bulletin/SET_Bulletin-Jul2008.pdf.

Thanks and regards

partha

Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Burdwan, 
Burdwan, Rajbati - 713104, WB

----- Original Message -----
From: Rajan
To: "Lis Forum"
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Koha for Malyalam Catalogues
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:05:18 +0530

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

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