Having text as input

[Peter Quain]

Searched my e-prime list mailbox for old question about 'Hebrew'  fonts:

Thread-Url: http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/t/46ff1dc45ff81cb2

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Yoed,

Thanks for getting and posting the reply from PST.  I wonder if any 
of the alternatives to E-Prime (e.g., Presentation, 
http://www.neurobs.com ) could do a better job of handling non-English input?

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>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!
>
>++++
>
>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 
><http://www.pstnet.com/e-prime/support/samples.asp?Mode=View&SampleID=47>SAMPLE:Process 
>Responses Template 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.
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At 01:59 AM 9/08/2011, you wrote:
>Thanks anyway :)
>
>On Aug 8, 4:15 pm, Paul Groot <pfc.gr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, using non-ASCII text is unexplored territory for me, so I'm
> > afraid I can't help here...
> > I know EP2 has some support for displaying UNICODE text, but I guess
> > the interpretation of magic keystrokes for non-ASCII characters is not
> > build-in.
> >
> > 2011/8/8 gilis <gilads... at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
> > > Sure Paul, and thanks very much-however, I forgot to add one detail
> > > that change the entire question, I want Eprime to receive text which
> > > is not written in Latin letters..Now how can I do that ?
> > > On Aug 8, 10:22 am, Paul Groot <pfc.gr... at gmail.com> wrote:
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