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Chinese Localisation Of Evergreen: An Open Source Integrated Library System, Qing Zou, Liu Guoying
Chinese Localisation Of Evergreen: An Open Source Integrated Library System, Qing Zou, Liu Guoying
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate various issues related to Chinese language localisation in Evergreen, an open source integrated library system (ILS).
Design/methodology/approach - A Simplified Chinese version of Evergreen was implemented and tested and various issues such as encoding, indexing, searching, and sorting specifically associated with Simplified Chinese language were investigated.
Findings - The paper finds that Unicode eases a lot of ILS development problems. However, having another language version of an ILS does not simply require the translation from one language to another. Indexing, searching, sorting and other locale related issues should be tackled …