Okay! Device fonts seems to be the consensus. Thanks. Some more info about Tahoma in case anyone was wondering - I did some research on it - the Chinese characters are definitely available in Tahoma in some installations but never Japanese characters.
On 2/7/06, Fitzpatrick, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ! > > It just occurred to me that I've been answering the wrong question. > I've been talking about output, not input. I would absolutely agree > with Kenneth on input, uses device fonts for inputs. > > Sorry about the miscommunication. > > > Kevin Fitzpatrick > Flash Designer, > SAP.com Web Services Team - SAP Global Marketing > SAP Global Solutions Center > 3999 West Chester Pike > Newtown Square, PA 19073 > C (267) 254-6225 > E [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth > Kawamoto > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 9:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Chinese / Japanese Text Input > > >I think it's possible Japanese characters in Tahoma font won't be > present on some installations - but that on others Tahoma will have all > the Japanese characters. > > Tahoma includes characters for Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Thai but not > Chinese, Japanese, Korean and others. So there's no way you can use > Tahoma for Japanese. > > It's a lovely font, however it's a Microsoft font and not installed in > all the machines (e.g. older Macs), so be careful! > > > Kenneth Kawamoto > www.materiaprima.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- -- http://www.centralquestion.com/flauntit _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
