[CWB] Non-Latin1 characters in Windows

[Hardie, Andrew]

To the world in general...
 
George emailed me off-list to inform me that his problem goes away if
the font used by cmd.exe is changed to Lucida Console, rather than the
default which is Fixedsys; this option is available under "Properties"
if you right-click on the cmd.exe title bar. 
 
So the problem wasn't that the characters *couldn't be entered*, rather
it was that, once entered, they couldn't display properly in Fixedsys
(unsurprisingly since it is a very old font).
 
Other possible approaches to problems arising from cmd.exe include:
 
- run CQP from Windows Power Shell instead (haven't tried this myself
but it might help)
- save your commands inc untypable/unprintable characters into a text
file and then run CQP in batch mode with -f
- pipe your commands to CQP from another program, while running it in
child mode with -c
 
Andrew.

 

________________________________

	From: podmocani at gmail.com [mailto:podmocani at gmail.com] On Behalf
Of George Mitrevski
	Sent: 10 March 2011 02:55
	To: Hardie, Andrew
	Subject: Re: [CWB] Non-Latin1 characters in Windows
	
	
	Andrew, 
	I guess you are right, I just checked cmd.exe, I can't enter any
non-Latin characters. Cab you think of a solution?
	Thanks much,
	George.
	
	
	On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Hardie, Andrew
<a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
	

		This may be something to do with the cmd.exe window
rather than CQP. Is
		it Russian Windows that you're using? And is it Utf-8 or
Windows-1251
		that you (are trying to) input?
		
		Andrew.
		
		> -----Original Message-----
		> From: cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it
		> [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] On Behalf Of
George Goce
		> Mitrevski
		> Sent: 10 March 2011 02:39
		> To: CWB at sslmit.unibo.it
		> Subject: [CWB] Non-Latin1 characters in Windows
		>
		> I have OCWB running in Windows 7. The CQP window won't
accept
		> non-Latin1 characters (my corpus is in Cyrillic), they
turn
		> into question marks as I type.
		> Is there a solution?
		>
		>
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	Auburn University 
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