[The rest of this post is now outmoded - PsychoPy (at least when running locally) should now display Arabic and Farsi text correctly. In your text component, click the “Formatting” tab and select “Arabic” as the language style. Not all fonts will correctly display Arabic text, however. Start with Ar…

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 the font Open Sans. I changed this to Arial and the situation seems to be resolved. The screenshot below shows O…

See here for an update on adding this functionality directly within PsychoPy: [image] Reshaping English Text to Arabic Builder Just a note that a new languageStyle parameter has been added to PsychoPy’s text stimulus, accessible both via Coder and in the Builder Text comp…

Hello Michael, I am using PsychoPy for an Arabic self-paced reading task. The letters still not connected when I run the experiment. It is from right to left but still there is a gap between the characters. Kind regards, Ala’a

Can you post a minimal working example here (i.e. a .psyexp file along with any Excel or .csv file needed to contain the text) for us to check?

Thanks, but I really need to be able to see the Builder .psyexp file that was used to generate that .py script (and any other files required to be able to run the experiment).

The thing you are taking a screenshot of is a file that is probably called Reading Demo.psyexp which I guess is sitting on your desktop, and there should also be a file there called Book2.xlsx. You start by looking in the same place (your desktop I think) where you were able to find Reading Demo_la…

Thanks for the Excel file. But I really need to see the Builder .psyexp file, NOT the .py “lastrun” Python script. If I have the Builder file, I can generate the .py file from it if needed. If I don’t have access to the actual Builder file you’re using yourself, I can’t give you useful instruction…

Reading Demo.psyexp (8.0 KB) Please bear with me this is my first trial on PsychPy. Thank you

Thank you so much. It’s because of my lack of knowledge of the software not a a problem with PsychoPy. Thank you for your patience.

PsychoPy presenting text in Persian/Arabic

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Michael May 31, 2018, 11:16pm 2

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PsychoPy presenting text in Persian/Arabic

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