Ah, I've just been there with IPA characters.
If you are using htmltext it's do able, though in the end I embedded the font
(deja-vu in my case, it's open source) since I also needed to set plain text.
The trick is to unicode escape the character, replace it with that escaped code
and set a style on it's replacement, where that style specifies the embedded
font.
so if you know your character code for your undertie , lets say it's 1234, try
something like this :
var unicodeString:String = "&#" + 1234 + ";";
str = str.replace(String.fromCharCode(1234),"<span class='ipa'>" +
unicodeString + "</span>");
then specify the style for your text :
_textStyle = new StyleSheet();
var ipaStyle:Object = new Object();
ipaStyle.fontFamily = "YourEmbeddedFont";
_textStyle.setStyle(".ipa", ipaStyle);
yourText.styleSheet = _textStyle;
Sorry if that's a bit scrappy, hopefully it will give you an idea of where you
might head.
I was using flex, in fact, but I think this still applies to flash textfields.
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Combining embedded and device fonts in one textfield
Thanks for that link, Ktu. I didn't know you could specify Unicode
ranges to embed - very handy.
Unfortunately, the problem still remains of having to combine an
embedded font and a device font in the same textfield. As Lee Brimelow
demonstrates near the end of the tutorial, the lowercase 'u' didn't
display because only uppercase glyphs were embedded. It seems like if
I choose to embed only the undertie character, my textfield will only
be capable of displaying ... the undertie character!
It seems like this is the conundrum:
1) I need to embed the undertie character, as Arial Unicode MS is not
guaranteed to be found on all machines.
2) That means that any textfield which would have an undertie in it,
would have to have embedFonts = true;
3) Any textfield which has embedFonts = true can only display
characters included in the embedded font. Which, referring back to
(1), would just be an undertie.
4) This means that if I want to have an undertie, I'd have to embed
the undertie AND every single other glyph which might be used in that
textfield. Uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, numbers, etc. Further,
I'd have to embed separate versions for each of bold, italic, and
bold-italic.
All this for an undertie!!
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Ktu <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you have Flash CS4 or Flex, you could embed just that one character from
> that font using the [Embed] syntax. Check out this tutorial
> http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=102
>
> Ktu
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:08 PM, [email protected] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have paragraphs of text which includes phonemic symbols: pretty much
>> any character found here should be included:
>> http://www.e-lang.co.uk/mackichan/call/pron/type.html
>>
>> I thought I was home and hosed, as Lucida Sans Unicode / Lucida
>> Grande, which seems pretty standard, covers all that.
>>
>> The problem came when I found out that I also have to be able to
>> display the undertie character:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_(typography)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_%28typography%29>(HTML
>> code ?)
>>
>> It seems that the only font on Windows that covers the undertie is
>> Arial Unicode MS. Unfortunately, Arial Unicode MS doesn't seem to be a
>> standard font.
>>
>> I don't want to have to embed Arial Unicode MS because that would
>> really add to my file sizes, as well as restricting my ability to do
>> things like textfield.htmlText = "<b>bold</b> text". It seems like
>> such overkill for ONE SINGLE GLYPH.
>>
>> Would anyone be able to suggest any alternatives? ALL I WANT IS AN
>> UNDERTIE ... *sob*
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