Time Nick Message 12:04 gvb Thanks. 14:10 Snow_Fox wow its empty in here 14:19 anxst hello 14:19 Snow_Fox :-P 14:20 Snow_Fox its been a wee bit quiet in here so far 14:21 anxst i'm having some problems with searching in koha due to unicode normalization forms 14:21 anxst could someone maybe help me out? 14:22 anxst problem is that most of our biblios are stored in nfd/nfkd in mysql 14:23 Snow_Fox sorry mango greek to me :( 14:23 anxst now when i'm doing a search for a book (or author) with a diacritic in the name i don't get any results 14:24 anxst cause naturally my keyboard input is nfc 14:24 anxst is there an easy way to get around this? 14:25 Snow_Fox umm, i havnt a clue, but i guess you could try changing the keyboard input to NFG or NFKD 14:25 Snow_Fox NFD 14:25 Snow_Fox sorry 14:25 Snow_Fox beyond that i cant help you with this 14:30 anxst i don't think is easily possible... if at all 14:33 Snow_Fox you could well be right 14:33 Snow_Fox now when you say diacritic thats a special character right? 14:35 anxst yes, like a grave accent in french or a trema in german... stuff like ä or è 14:36 Snow_Fox you will have to forgive me, i live in the middle of kansas we dont see many characters like that unless the folks in lindsborg have there festival 14:38 anxst :) 15:27 Snow_Fox ok the use of RSS feeds kinda confuse me in relation to OPACS 16:09 Snow_Fox monring Piano 16:09 Snow_Fox morning even 16:12 pianohacker Good monring to you too 16:49 Snow_Fox ok i keep reading about the opac being able to access a RSS feed 16:49 Snow_Fox i guess i should ask 16:49 Snow_Fox how does the uers do that technically with the opac demo 16:50 Snow_Fox users 16:50 Snow_Fox man i cant type this morning 18:09 pianohacker There's an rss button on search pages 18:38 Snow_Fox like on the users opac account? 18:38 Snow_Fox or somewhere in the sys 18:38 pianohacker On a search page 19:32 Snow_Fox i be thinking that the demos dont be having that enabled 19:32 pianohacker mebbe. Or I could be wrong 19:44 chris morning 19:54 Snow_Fox huh 19:55 Snow_Fox someones Addy on MSN :Meaford - Where happiness goes to die 19:55 Snow_Fox ive always wondered where it did that 20:00 chris hehe 20:00 Snow_Fox hey chris 20:01 Snow_Fox RSS feeds in the OPAC 20:01 Snow_Fox exist ya or na? 20:02 chris yep 20:02 chris they exist 20:02 chris http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=h 20:03 chris see the little rss link next to the count of results? 20:03 Snow_Fox ya 20:03 Snow_Fox i do now 20:04 Snow_Fox ok 20:04 Snow_Fox so basically they can subscribe to that search as a RSS feed 20:04 Snow_Fox and that would be native to there opac login? 20:05 chris they dont have to be logged in 20:05 chris you can subscribe to the rss of any search, logged in or not 20:06 Snow_Fox and the results of that search will go to what ever collects there RSS feeds 20:06 Snow_Fox right? 20:06 chris yup 20:06 Snow_Fox so really nothing changes OPAC wise then 20:06 chris exactly 20:06 Snow_Fox i see 20:06 chris so a search ppl like to craft is one that shows new items 20:07 chris what id suggest with that, is you take that, and put it through feedburned 20:07 chris feedburner even 20:07 chris and provide a link on your opac to the feedburner feed 20:08 chris you can then track how many ppl are subscribe, and also feedburner fetches it once, .. even if 500 ppl are subscribe, so you dont get lots of extra searches 20:10 chris (ie add it to the opac homepage) 20:10 Snow_Fox i see 20:11 Snow_Fox im trying to wrap my head around this 20:11 Snow_Fox :-P 20:11 Snow_Fox its saturday my mind left my body by itself and said deal with it, its prob off at the lake right nwo 20:12 Snow_Fox :-P 20:12 Snow_Fox thanks chris i think that should get me going on this project 20:12 chris cool 20:45 chris right, time to make pancakes with a toddler, then off to the markets 20:45 chris i must be a masochist 20:45 Snow_Fox i was gonna say 20:46 Snow_Fox at least your not a Emo Masochist 20:46 chris heh 21:28 pianohacker bye, all 03:43 pianohacker 'night