Japanese - Form Multiple Choice - cvs.file Not working

bbTokyobb

Hello everyone,

 

I am conducting an experiment in Japanese, and at the end I would like to ask several questions to my participants through the use of different Multiple-Choice Forms.

My problem is that, although OpenSesame is able to display my questions and the different responses of the check boxes in Japanese, the cvs file that I get does not seem to be able to record the response in Japanese.

When I open the file with Excel or OpenOffice I get weird symbol as responsessuch as:   å—アメリã

I would really appreciate if someone could help me resolve this problem.

Best regards 

sebastiaan

Hi @bbTokyobb ,

The OpenSesame log file is encoded in utf-8 , as described here:

• https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.3/manual/logging/#format-of-the-data-files

When you open the file in a program such as Excel, LibreOffice, or OpenOffice, you can generally indicate the character encoding. For me, using LibreOffice Calc, this looks like this:

When you indicate utf-8 encoding, all characters should appear correctly!

— Sebastiaan