psychtoolbox-3-common 3.0.12.20160126.dfsg1-1ubuntu1 / usr / share / psychtoolbox-3 / PsychDocumentation / DrawTextEncodingLocaleSettings.m

% DrawTextEncodingLocaleSettings
%
% If you are just concerned with drawing "standard" ASCII text with the
% Screen('DrawText', window, text); command, i.e. text that only contains
% "standard" latin characters, e.g., abcdef....ABCDEF.... and numbers
% 01234567890 and a few punctuation marks and symbols like .,!?#@$%& etc.
% then there's nothing you'd need to do. Screen('DrawText') and
% DrawFormattedText() will process these just fine.
%
% If you want to draw "native" unicode text strings conforming to UTF-16
% encoding with characters or code points in the BMP (Basic multilingual
% plane), you can simply convert your string of unicode code points into a
% vector of doubles, ie., pass it as a vector of numbers of class double(),
% e.g., text = [1424, 1425, 1426] for the first three characters of the
% hebrew alphabet.
%
% Direct drawing of unicode text characters outside the BMP is possible in
% the same way the default textrenderer if you've installed the neccessary
% software as described in "help DrawTextPlugin". In that case, the unicode
% code points may have values greater than 65535, ie., they are processed
% internally as UTF-32 / UCS-4 characters - Each single number represents
% exactly one character and the numbers can be codepoints from any Unicode
% plane.
%
% The legacy OS/X text renderer and MS-Windows text renderer, which are
% used if you select Screen('Preference', 'TextRenderer', 0) or if the
% standard renderer does not work, only support UTF-16 / UCS-2 encoding.
% Therefore, characters outside of the BMP must be represented by pairs of
% codepoints, each with a value between 0 and 65535 - Two consecutive
% values in your double vector will represent one character from outside
% the BMP.
%
% You can also draw non-ASCII character strings encoded into some
% single-byte encoding scheme, multibyte encoding scheme or unicode
% characters that are not encoded as doubles but as a sequence of UTF-8
% encoded bytes. To do so, first you have to tell Screen() the encoding
% scheme of the character string by a call to
% Screen('Preference','TextEncodingLoale', newloc); newloc is the name of
% the text encoding scheme to use. Example names for valid locales could be
% 'en_US.ISO8859-1' for single-byte ISO8859-1 "Latin-1" encoding, or
% 'UTF-8' for UTF-8 encoded unicode text, or 'C' for default C language
% character encoding. Passing an empty string '' will reset the setting to
% the system default of your operating system. The function returns the
% previous setting. On OS/X and Linux you can type "locale -a" in a
% terminal window to list all supported settings. For MS-Windows you can
% find supported codepages under this URL:
% http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317756%28VS.85%29.aspx e.g.,
% setting a locale of '.1252' would select MS-Windows codepage 1252, aka
% 'windows-1252'. A setting of 'UTF-8' for UTF-8 encoded unicode should
% always work. The set of other supported encodings is highly operating
% system dependent.
%
% After you've told Screen the encoding to use, you can pass strings to
% Screen('DrawText'). If you want to make sure that Matlab or Octave don't
% tamper in unexpected or uncontrollable ways with your string, you can
% pass the string as a uint8 vector. Passing the string as uint8 vector is
% recommended in most cases. Different versions of Matlab and Octave store
% and process regular char() character strings in different ways on
% different operating systems which can often lead to unexpected results.
% On some setups you will be able to directly pass regular text strings,
% but this is not guaranteed to be portable across different computer
% systems, Matlab or Octave versions.
%
% If you get unexpected results for given text strings you can call
% Screen('Preference','Verbosity', 10); before a drawtext operation. The
% function will then print the passed string as a sequence of numbers after
% conversion into unicode format. This allows to check what kind of unicode
% characters were generated.
%
%
% Assuming Screen('DrawText') managed to receive your final (unicode) text
% string correctly, you'll also have to make sure that a font is selected
% that supports the characters in your string. E.g., not all fonts support
% hebrew characters. Use Screen('TextFont', window, fontName); to select a
% proper font fontName. How to find such a font is operating system
% specific. The default text renderer allows to select fonts by properties
% instead of names as well, e.g., it allows to select a font that supports
% a requested language: Screen('Textfont', window, '-:lang=he');  would
% select a font that supports hebrew. Screen('Textfont', window,
% '-:lang=ja');  would select a font that supports japanese script. See
% some more examples in the code of DrawHighQualityUnicodeTextDemo.m.
%
% If you type DrawTextEncodingLocaleSettings to run this script, you may
% see some hebrew characters rendered if your systems fonts and text
% renderers do support this. This code also acts as a sample on how to pass
% UTF-8 unicode strings to 'DrawText'.
%

PsychDefaultSetup(1);

try
    screenid = max(Screen('Screens'));
    w = Screen('Openwindow', screenid, 255);
    Screen('TextSize', w, 48);
    Screen('Preference', 'TextRenderer', 1);
    Screen('TextFont', w, '-:lang=he');
    
    % Some uint8 vector with UTF-8 encoded hebrew characters:
    y = uint8([215  148  215  169  215  160  215  153  215  157   44   32  215  149  215  160 215  162  215  169  215  148]);
    
    if ~IsLinux
        oldone = Screen('Preference', 'TextEncodingLocale', 'UTF-8');
    else
        oldone = Screen('Preference', 'TextEncodingLocale', 'en_US.UTF-8');
    end
    
    Screen('DrawText', w, y, 10, 100);
    Screen('Flip', w);
    
    KbStrokeWait;
    Screen('CloseAll');
    Screen('Preference', 'TextEncodingLocale', oldone);
catch
    sca;
    
    if exist('oldone','var')
        Screen('Preference', 'TextEncodingLocale', oldone);
    end
    
    psychrethrow(psychlasterror);
end