I have written an experiment in which the subject has to choose between to unicode characters. The content of the text comes from an excel condition file. It works perfectly on Windows 7 and 8.1 but when I try to run it in a laptop with Windows 10 all the unicode characters are shown as squares. Fir…

That actually helped! I do not understand exactly why but it works now. I installed Korean and Japanese fonts. I choosed Meiryo for the stimuli and worked. This is strange for me because under Excel all the strings are corretly shown in Arial but not in psychopy using the same font. Now the instr…

What happens with a .csv format conditions file? Try uploading a minimal example here so the problem can be reproduced.

If I save a unicode tex file in Excel instead of xlsx (I use unicode text because CSV option turns unicode into “?”) I got some errors: ################## Running: E:\jap_trial\jap_trial_lastrun.py ################## pyo version 0.6.6 (uses single precision) Traceback (most recent call last): Fil…

The Excel file itself is fine, and pandas 0.18.1 loads it flawlessly for me in the Jupyter Notebook. In my terminal window I only get ?'s, though, so this appears to be a problem with the fonts used. [image]

[image] juanmarinlahoz: The script starts with #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- This shouldn’t be related to your problem.

I wrote it just in case some one suspected that was the problem

Awesome. Don’t know why PsychoPy cannot use Arial, though…

My guess is that Arial font doesn’t really include korean or japanese characters. I imagine Excel detects that and switches (silently) to an alternative when it sees your characters. PsychoPy isn’t that smart!

Actually from this link I’ll change my theory: http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/views/View_ArialUnicodeMS.html Maybe there’s a version of Arial that supports kanji but that’s a different font file from the one psychopy is using.

I do not really know. The thing is under linux (Mint 13 and Mint 14) and Windows 7 and 8.1 Arial works fine both with kanji and Korean. But using the same version of psychopy under Windows 10 it does not. It would be good to know why to avoid possible upcoming issues. On the other hand, I am quite h…

I have created an issue: https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy/issues/1324

Unable to show unicode from excel files

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Michael November 8, 2017, 8:26pm 16

@daniel.riggs1 is right, your problem is actually likely related to this thread:

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Unable to show unicode from excel files

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