[solved] Hebrew Text

ezerkar

Hi to all,

Long time ago I've asked Sebastiaan about writing hebrew, he offered using pics instead of text, that was a helpful idea and I've used it alot.
Since then, the ability of hebrew fonts was added , I tried to use it recently and the letters came out alright but in mirror writing, is there a way to fix that? perhaps an inline code that tells the computer to flip any text?

Thanks in advance.

Ezer

sebastiaan

Haha, right, that should be more or less fixable using a bit of inline code.

I'm a bit busy: just arrived in Marseille for a six month visit and in the process of finding a house etc., but I'll check it out and get back to you.

sebastiaan

If you add the following to the prepare phase of an inline script at the start of your experiment, it should do the trick:

for item in self.experiment.items.values():
    if item.item_type in ['sketchpad', 'feedback']:
        for element in item.items:
            if 'text' in element:
                element['text'] = element['text'][::-1]
    elif item.item_type in ['text_input']:
        item._question = item._question[::-1]
    elif item.item_type in ['text_display']:
        item.content = item.content[::-1]

Btw, this trick works only for sketchpad, feedback, text_display, and text_input (question only) items. Because each plug-in is free to store text however it likes, there's no generic method that always works for everything.

ezerkar

This is realy not that important, so enjoying the new city would probably be a better choice, but just to let you know the code you sent makes hebrew text appear as unicode (u+ etc).

Ezer

sebastiaan

Ow, right! It also reversed the unicode notiation (U+1000 -> 0001+U), which messes things up. This is a slightly more elaborate script, which should preserve Unicode characters:

from PyQt4.QtCore import QString
for item in self.experiment.items.values():
    if item.item_type in ['sketchpad', 'feedback']:
        for element in item.items:
            if 'text' in element:
                s = element['text']
                s = self.usanitize(QString(self.unsanitize(s)[::-1]))
                element['text'] = s
    elif item.item_type in ['text_input']:
        s = item._question
        s = self.usanitize(QString(self.unsanitize(s)[::-1]))
        item._question = s
    elif item.item_type in ['text_display']:
        s = item.content
        s = self.usanitize(QString(self.unsanitize(s)[::-1]))
        item.content = s

ezerkar

Works like a charm

Thanks