Chinese text using the Screen function of Psychtoobox

Hello my name is William and I am using MATLAB version R2013a(8.1.0.604)x64 on a mac OX 10.8.5 english version. I am unable to use the command Screen of Psychtoolbox version 3 for displaying Chinese characters. could somebody help me to sort out this problem. The Psychtool demo of Screen uses Japanese text but I can not make it work for chinese text. thanks in advance

Answer 1

[william]

I put in the beginning of my function this: Screen('Preference', 'TextEncodingLocale',''); and I could display the Chinese characters

and when displaying the characters: Screen('DrawText', w, double(我),sze(i,1)+(charsz*2),sze(i,2), rectx2); DrawFormattedText(w, double(我),sze(i,1)+(charsz*2),sze(i,2)); sze 1 and 2 were the dimensions of the screen from rect and rectx2 is a matrix with the color information

If any further comment, probably I could help you

Now I am trying to get through this function [status,message] = system('say 你好'), how to make matlab speaking Chinese... any idea?

Answer 2

[Anandakumar Selvaraj]

Try this in your code

 feature('DefaultCharacterSet', 'UTF8') %# for all Character support

Note:- that UTF-8 can be used for all languages and is the recommended charset on the Internet.

[william]

After setting feature('DefaultCharacterSet', 'UTF-8')

[status,message] = system('say "你好"') the sound of this string is not accurate, any suggestion?