Kerry Thompson wrote: > I take that to mean that the Flash player doesn't support bi-di input.
> Am I right in assuming that it could display bi-di text? Flash Player 9 definitely doesn't support bi-di input, and its support for rendering bi-di text is pretty limited. Some developers have been able to display bi-di text, but have complained that it is much harder than it should be. See the comments for this blog post: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2007/05/tiny_clarificat.cfm > So can you read a bi-di text file, or XML, or a string passed from, say, > an ASP page? Or do we need to wait for Astro? I'm not an expert in this, but I believe that you can do this now. However, there are challenging issues regarding text flow, selection management, and line breaking, etc, that will be much easier to deal with in Astro. If you check the comments to the link above, there are some links to examples of SWFs that use Arabic text. Francis Cheng | Sr. Technical Writer | Adobe Systems Incorporated _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
