E-prime in Japan

[Hirokata Fukushima]

Hi,
I'm a Japanese student using E-prime, I know a tip to display Japanse
fonts with a TextDisplay object.
My suggestion is to implement text stimuli directly in the EBS file.

Your .ebs file should have a line to 'InitTextDisplayDefaults' as below:

theTextDisplay.FontName = "..."

Change the font name ("...") into the one which can handle Japanese
characters.

Then you can write in Japanese the content of each TextDisplay object,
e.g.;
TextDisplay1.Text = "...(in Japanese)..."

That's it. 
Now you can run the script.
Does it work?

Hiro 

# Still, it's a lot of work when you have a large number of item to
  display. I think most Japanese users don't take this way, instead
  use the  ImageDisplay to present Japanese words, as Eddie discribed. 


Hirokata FUKUSHIMA
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From: "Eddie Dubourg" <eddie at ling.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: E-prime in Japan
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:44:34 -0000

>  As far as I'm aware, E-prime doesn't handle multi-byte fonts (e.g.
> Japanese) very well.
> 
> When constructing a script in japanese, I use Word and Arial Unicode to make
> the sentences, and then Paint Shop Pro (or Print Screen and Paint, for a
> free alternative) to grab screenshots, and use picture stimuli instead of
> text stimuli.  This is the same technique I used with Psyscope - 1.2.2 under
> OS9.x used to whimper if Greek fonts were used, but I digress...
> 
> A bit of a hassle, but it works well here (and as here is Linguistics rather
> than Psychology, it's not too unusual...).  If anyone has a better way, I'm
> all ears....
> 
> V2 of E-prime is meant to address this issue..
> 
> E
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> U> -----Original Message-----
> U> From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org 
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> U> Sent: 18 January 2006 14:35
> U> To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
> U> Subject: E-prime in Japan
> U> 
> U> I would like to use Japanese caracters in an E-prime script. 
> U> Is this possible? If so, does anybody know what is the best 
> U> way to do this?
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> U> Esther Davidse
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