entering hebrew letters as response

Tue Mar 23 11:55:01 UTC 2010

hi
i have actually taken this up with PST and late last night i got an answer -
the short version of it is no. attaching below the answer i got from them,
thanks everyone for their help in this issue!

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Yoed,

Are you using E-Prime v1.x or E-Prime 2.0? While E-Prime 2.0 is supported by
the English/Western European versions of Windows XP and Vista, this really
only applies to text that is displayed by the objects. That is, while the
"Text" property of a TextDisplay will accept foreign characters, the other
properties (including .Input and its related echo properties) will not. All
non-English characters or accents will go unrecognized by E-Prime in the
responses and in the text that is echoed to the screen.

E-Prime 2.0 has resolved this to some degree by allowing non-English fonts
to appear as responses in the data file (i.e., UNICODE fonts are permitted).
However, the echo client will still only display English and the responses
themselves will still be based on the QWERTY keyboard. You could get around
this by manually echoing the subject's responses to the screen. For example,
you could take the subject's input and then convert it to Hebrew in script,
and then display this on screen (e.g., if the semicolon key is pressed,
convert this to a specific character and display it on screen, etc).
However, this can be fairly script intensive and would require that the
Hebrew characters appear correctly in TextDisplay objects and/or Slide
objects and appear correctly in InLine objects. If you are interested, I
would recommend taking a look at SAMPLE:Process Responses
Template<http://www.pstnet.com/e-prime/support/samples.asp?Mode=View&SampleID=47>for
an example of how to change what is displayed on screen based on the
subject's responses.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:57 PM, liwenna <liwenna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gilis, there are no silly replies! Quite often the most obvious things
> get the most easily overlooked.
>
> Yoed: no luck yet I suppose? Have you taken this up with PST? For what
> it's worth: as reported before I do get to see wingdings on my screen
> but the logged responses are in "english"... i.e. letters and no fancy
> wingdings...
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 21, 9:27 pm, gilis <gilads... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Appologize for the silly reply...
> >
> > On 21 מרץ, 16:03, Yoed Kenett <yoedken... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > hi
> > > the windows i have on my machine supports of course hebrew fonts...
> >
> > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 3:15 PM, gilis <gilads... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > On 21 מרץ, 12:14, Yoed Kenett <yoedken... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > hi
> > > > > thank you so much for your help
> > > > > i just want to say in my defense that many people have told me how
> to
> > > > record
> > > > > keyboard responses and i am quite grateful for all of their help
> and i
> > > > have
> > > > > managed to do it through their help. what i still have not managed
> is for
> > > > > the subject to enter his response and see hebrew font and for the
> program
> > > > to
> > > > > code his response in hebrew letters and english gibrish.
> >
> > > > > i have checked and i can select a hebrew font in my echo advanced
> display
> > > > > settings. i changed the font of the echo display to a hebrew font
> and
> > > > still
> > > > > when i tried to type a response in the experiment it was still in
> english
> > > > > characters and also the program recorded the answer in english and
> not
> > > > > hebrew characters.
> > > > > what is my next step?
> >
> > > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:59 PM, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > > Welcome back Yoed.
> >
> > > > > > So you still didn't solve this, hey?
> >
> > > > > > I think that many people already gave you their look on this and
> that
> > > > > > you've been asked to provide some more info on what is going
> wrong
> > > > > > where exactly.
> >
> > > > > > Last time I tried to install a hebrew font on my computer but
> that
> > > > > > totally crashed my account so I won't try that again... but for
> what
> > > > > > it's worth: I assume you do have hebrew fonts installed on your
> > > > > > computer... can you choose them in e-prime?? i.e. if you have a
> > > > > > textobject, can you select a hebrew font on the font option?
> >
> > > > > > If you make a slide and in the slide properties under the input
> tab
> > > > > > add the keyboard as an input device and then choose advance...
> you can
> > > > > > create an 'echo'... under echo tab add a display-device. Next go
> to
> > > > > > edit the display device and now you can choose a font under the
> font
> > > > > > tab which will be the font e-prime uses for the echo (i.e.
> showing on
> > > > > > the screen) of what is typed. I can select wingdings here (for
> lack of
> > > > > > hebrew font) and it will show me wingdings on the screen all
> right.
> >
> > > > > > Don't forget to increase the max count on the general tab of the
> > > > > > 'keyboard advanced properties', it it's set to 1 you can only
> enter 1
> > > > > > character before the slide will 'jump'. Set it to 6 and you can
> enter
> > > > > > 6 character etc. Also set the the slide duration to infinite.
> >
> > > > > > If this works you'll still need to adjust settings on the echo,
> so
> > > > > > doing the above stuff won't 'finish'your experiment but just let
> us
> > > > > > know whether or not you receive hebrew letters if you take the
> above
> > > > > > steps or not.
> >
> > > > > > Best,
> >
> > > > > > liw
> >
> > > > > > On Mar 15, 12:48 pm, Yoed <yoedken... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > hi there
> > > > > > > i have eprime2 and in my experiment i am presenting my subject
> with a
> > > > > > > visual stimuli and then ask him to write down his answer with
> the
> > > > > > > keyboard via echo recording. the problem i have is that i need
> the
> > > > > > > subject to write his response in hebrew and right now i cant
> figure
> > > > > > > out how to do that - only able to write a response in latin
> > > > characters
> > > > > > > which makes it quite difficult to convert it later back to
> hebrew
> > > > > > > can anyone help me with this?
> > > > > > > thanks
> >
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> >
> > > > Maybe what you have to do is to install windows XP with support in
> > > > Hebrew. I use Hebrew on my computer regulary
> > > > and also many times used Hebrew words in Eprime. It's not big deal
> > > > once windows support Hebrew.
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