I’ve downloaded the Standalone PsychoPy 3.2.4 for MacOS. I’ve tried running an experiment involving words presented one word at a time in Arabic and the words appeared without diacritics although the excel document contains the list of words with diacritics. Is there a way to make diacritical marks …

Thanks. The problem seems to be pretty deep-rooted, and at this stage seems to lie outside of PsychoPy’s own code base, and instead be an issue for the third-party drawing systems that we rely upon to display text. I’ll look into it a bit further… Unfortunately there is not much online about other …

Hi, sorry this took a while but the answer was staring at me all the time. We are going to need to make some changes to PsychoPy for a future release to get this to work automatically. But in the interim, we may be able to get things working for you immediately by using some custom code. Let me kno…

yes sure, I would like to use custom code. Thanks

Hello Sir, @Michael I am using an Arabic self-paced reading task, but still I can’t find a way to put the diacritic marks on the Arabic words. Could you please advise if any changes has been made to PsychoPy to make this feature appear during the task? Thank you in advance. A

What font are you using? [image] PsychoPy presenting text in Persian/Arabic Other Please bear with me, as I can’t read Arabic. But this just seems to be a font limitation rather than a problem with PsychoPy itself. In the file you sent, the text component is set to use t…

[Ignore the previous version of this post, example text has been provided earlier in this thread.] I’m sorry, I must have made some insight into this issue but never followed through on it. Now unfortunately I can’t remember what that insight was. Will try to look further into it, but from what the…

Thank you. Would very much appreciate your help and advice on this issue. Ala’a

Thanks for your patience. So I used the examples provided by @Shorouq_H above: [Screen Shot 2022-04-11 at 15.45.22] and tried out a script which would alter PsychoPy’s behaviour to preserve the harakat when reshaping and preparing the script for right-to-left display. Here are the results: [Unti…

Missing diacritical marks

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What font are you using?

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Missing diacritical marks

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