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Problem with filename with accented characters in the pool and sub-folder in pool question

Hi all,
I am working with openSesame on french Phonetic problematic (for example phonetic differences between e and é and è)
I am getting problems with filenames with accented characters. (and also with ROI names, but I can handle this)
Of course I could allways try to map the accented characters with non accented characters (è --> ei for example) but this is not so nice.
Do you know any clue to avoid having this kind of problems (defining characterSet somewhere ) ?
And another question : is there anyway to work with subfolders (say e_ei) in pool ? I get the files in the sub-folders and work with these files correctly but when I try to save the project, OpenSesame raises the following error : Erreur: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'c:\users\cleroux\appdata\local\temp\tmpmohfdz.opensesame_pool\e_ei'
Tanks again for your help !

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  • By working a little more on that, this is much more link with (use of print for debugging and understanding)
    print items['pour_les_phonemes_du_son_choisi'].dm
    I tried to use something like encode('utf-8') .. somewhere but I do not find how to !!!
    Any clue ?

  • After some trials : my main problem is that the name of the files I want to use for Sampler contains accented characters (like è).
    No error ! But no sound is played (in fact, this is wrong .. something like a scratch is played !)
    Any clue ?

  • Hi,

    You're naming a lot of different things here, and it's not entirely clear to me what the actual problem is. Shall we give this a retry: What exactly are you trying to do? And in what sense doesn't this work as expected?

    Cheers,
    Sebastiaan

  • Ok. I agree with you that I was trying new things after better understanding ! So this is a little bit confusing !

    This is what I am trying to do:

    • help the student to distinguish with two closed phonetic sounds
    • help me knowing the students with problem with differencing these closed phonetic sound (correct responses and time needed)

    This is the content of the experiment

    • I have in the pool_folder, sub-folders for each "case" for my experiment. Say e_è, e_é, u_ou. In each folder, example of ogg files (say meurt.ogg, mère.ogg for folder e_è)
      The experiment goes like that :

    • 1st the student chooses the phonetic_case they want to work on (say e_è)

    • 2nd I create dynamicly the loop data with the content of the folder whose name is e_è
    • 3rd the 2 words are played (mère.ogg and meurt.ogg, for example)
    • 4th The student chooses the right answer (different sound or identical sound)

    here is the status
    going through subfolders to populate the loop data : OK
    play sound with file without accented character : OK
    play sound with file with accented character : not OK

    And there is a problem when trying to save the experiment
    --> Permission denied: u'c:\users\cleroux\appdata\local\temp\tmpmohfdz.opensesame_pool\e_è'
    --> this problem happens with sub-folder without accented character, too !

    Hoping it is more precise !

    Tnaks a lot

  • Hi,

    Ah ok, I see. The problem is probably that you're trying to have folders in the file pool, which is not supported. So you can either use a flat structure, without subfolders in the file pool. Or you can place the subfolders in the experiment folder, instead of in the file pool.

    Hope this helps!

    Cheers,
    Sebastiaan

  • This is what I did and it works fine ... just need some normalization with names. Thanks
    But what about playing sound for files with accented characters ? Any clue ?
    Thanks again

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