[CWB] CWB in Windows

[Ciarán Ó Duibhín]

Thanks, Luigi, you may well be right, but I'm only interested in what works natively under Windows.

The default registry directory seems to be  C:\CWB\registry

For utf-8 output under cmd.exe in Windows Vista, I tried several alternative command prompt tools.  With chcp 850, both cmd.exe and the alternative tools will output "í" as "├¡" and will recognize "├¡" in input as "í".  With chcp 65001, a couple of the alternatives show the utf-8 output correctly, but I have been unable to input anything and have it recognised as a utf-8 character.  Also the alternative tools all throw out warnings about "Not enough memory" and "Paging disabled."

I thought it would be informative to see how the utf-8 would fare in Windows 10, so I tried to install CWB (3.4.10-windows-i586-UPDATED.,zip) there.  I got as far as running cqp and choosing my corpus, but giving a word to search for produced "cqp has stopped working".  So I don't know if the utf-8 would show correctly in Windows 10, cqp didn't even get that far.  Has anyone else tried CWB under Windows 10?

Ciarán.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Luigi Talamo 
  To: Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench 
  Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2018 2:47 PM
  Subject: Re: [CWB] CWB in Windows


  Hello, 
  in my opinion, it is best to run cwb in a virtual  Linux environment under windows. I recall a VirtualBox image developed by the cwb team which works out of the box; by sharing a folder between windows and VirtualBox, you can safely play around with files and directories. 
  By the way, in the following weeks I hope to start a project aimed at providing docker containers for Cwb; docker containers are a new (well, not so new) technique of virtualization, which works pretty well under windows and macOS (and Linux, of course).
  Best,
  Luigi 


  — 
  Luigi Talamo, PhD

  On 18 Mar 2018, at 00:36, Ciarán Ó Duibhín <coduibhin at btinternet.com> wrote:


    Is there documentation on running CWB under Windows?

    I have several questions, like
    • how to get utf-8 output from cqp to show correctly in cmd.exe under Windows Vista?
    • what is the default registry directory for cwb-encode?

    Thank you.
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