Thanks for the reply Claus. I did think about setting the TextFormat and thereby the font at runtime but wasn't sure on how this would affect the performance. Any sample code would be greatly appreciated :) I'm trying it out now and seem to have run into an issue with the whole of the text not showing up.
I am using the ResourceManager provided by the Flex SDK and it works like a charm ... it's just this font embedding thing that has me stuck. Regards, Deepak --- In [email protected], Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In an application i'm currently working on (which is not done in Flex > though - i'm using Flash CS3 and the CS3 UI Components), i subclass the > components and add an "alternativeTextFormat" style. > > This way i can set it to display an embedded font that only contains > latin glyphs, and let it automatically switch to an alternative font > (usually unembedded _sans) when one of the characters can't be displayed > due to missing embedded glyphs. > > I have this implemented for buttons, labels and cell renderers and it > works like a charm (i'll opensource these soon btw). > > In addition i added a new InvalidationType.LOCALE and implemented a > simple AS3 version of gettext, to make switching languages at runtime > almost trivial. > > Flash CS3 though as i said, but this should also be doable in Flex i > guess. Flex 3 also comes with improvements in I18N land - i'm not too > much into that but you may want to look into ResourceManager there. > > Cheers, > Claus. > > deepak_michael wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > Thanks for the reply. > > No, the font doesn't contain the glyphs... but if I had set the same > > as a device font instead of embedding it, the characters for the > > Japanese/Chinese/non-latin characters appear. > > So, if the font's not embedded and if characters are encountered that > > is not in the glyph set of the font assigned, the player looks for a font > > on the client machine that does support those characters... but this > > beautiful mechanism seems to go away once we use an embedded font - > > that's the problem I want to work around. > > Please let me know if there's something I have missed out. > > > > Deepak > > > > --- In [email protected], Tom Chiverton tom.chiverton@ > > wrote: > >> On Friday 09 May 2008, deepak_michael wrote: > >>> I'm using an embedded font (Trebuchet MS) in the application and > >>> because of this strings which are in Japanese/Chinese/non-latin > >>> characters do not appear. > >> Does that font have glyphs for those locales ? > >> > >> -- > >> Tom Chiverton >
