Non-alphabetic Scripts

[JensBoelte]

Hello @srhsrh

Does this help?

Handling Arabic Diacritics in PsychoPy 2024.1.4 TextStim

Hi! I’m building a script for RSVP study in Arabic, but the script crashes whenever it encounters a word with diacritics (if there are no diacritics, the script works fine). I’ve tried resolving this issue by using several fonts (e.g., Arial, Sahel,…) , the problem persists. Here is the line of the script for the stimulus: stim = visual.TextStim(win, text=words[wordIndex], languageStyle=‘Arabic’) And the error message I get is: TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 2 fou…

Best wishes Jens