Hello Inquisit experts,
I am writing an experiment in which participants enter some items in various textboxes and then we present those items back to the participants as text stimuli. Eventually, I will need to create a Japanese and Chinese (Hong Kong) version of the task. For now, I am just trying to understand how it is that I can get Inquisit to present to me such items when written in a language other than English. I actually don't know much Japanese or Chinese, but I do know Vietnamese. Since Vietnamese can use the same font as English (it is a Romanized writing script), I have been trying to test Inquisit to see how I can get it to present to me Vietnamese words after I enter them into the program. I have been using the following script example: http://www.millisecond.com/download/samples/v2/SubjectProvidedItems/SubjectProvidedItems.exp
I just modified the script so that the default section has the following instead of the "font" attribute, otherwise the script is exactly the same as that in the task library:
/ fontstyle = ("Times New Roman", 2.52%, false, false, false, false, 5, 163)
Unfortunately, when I type Vietnamese words into textboxes in this script, they are not always properly displayed to me later (i.e. tonal/phonetic marks are often either absent or not in the proper location). I also tried with the "163" changed to "0" and it still did not work. I am wondering 1) If anyone knows what could be the problem with this script, and 2) If anyone has any examples of scripts that use languages such as Chinese or Japanese (it would be nice if there were better documentation on how to do this, or an example in the task library as I imagine I'm not the only one to encounter this problem - hint, hint). For now I just started using trial version of 3.0.4, will be launching the script in a web version 3.0.2 (or whatever is the stable version at the time I am ready).
Example Vietnamese words: ngươì, ngã, đâu, ở, văn học
Thank you very much,
Khoi
Hi Khoi,
Inquisit does support non-western characters such as those found in Chinese and Japanese text. However, to support these languages, the desired language must be set as the default language for non-unicode programs in the Windows Regions and Languages settings, which can be found in the Control Panel. If you are running Vietnamese Windows, this should already be the case. However, if you are running an English version of Windows (or any other language), you'll need to explicitly change this setting.
Let me know if it helps, and we'll take it from there.
Regards,Sean
Sean - so far your solution appears to work. I'm often running things in multiple languages, default was set to English. Hopefully participants won't have any problems :)
Thanks!