ActionScript 2.0 :: Cyrillic Fonts Using Flash 8?
Nov 23, 2009
I'm working on a mulitlingual site that has banners loading the text from an external xml file. The file I'm working on uses actionscript 2 and flash player 8. I'm using the font Avant Garde Gothic, which has all the glyphs needed.
I'm creating the text fields in the banners dynamically in as2, and then embed my font to a text format which is applied to the text field. This works great for Polish, Danish, Swedish etc. languages that just contain a few characters beyond the basic latin alphabet. But for Bulgarian, which uses the cyrillic alphabet, no text is displayed. This is my problem.
I've found that when I create my text field manually, using flash's gui, and embed the cyrillic glyphs manually it works fine, which shows that there's nothing wrong with my font. However, I can't use this method for my project. I've found that the only fonts that display cyrillic characters when being embedded through actionscript are fonts that are mainly cyrillic (but also contain a set of latin glyphs and some other basic stuff). It seems to me that flash only embeds a limited number of glyphs when calling the embedFont method and that the cyrillic glyphs are not prioritized here. Is this assumption correct?Is there anyway I can affect which gyphs are embedded using flash 8? I've read that Flex can be used for this but Flex requires flash player 9, doesn't it?
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