# Arabic text in Flash

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arabic-text-in-flash/77072>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 24, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arabic-text-in-flash/77072 "2005-01-24T13:12:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Modelsinc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Modelsinc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Modelsinc)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arabic-text-in-flash/77072/1 "2005-01-24T13:12:30Z")

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I have problem with arabic text in Flash. I read an external UTF-8 textfile into flash using #include. When I publish it looks as it should. When I view from other computers it all gets backward. It seems like RTL works on my computer but not on others. Why is that?

There is one thing though: on my computer I have arabic installed and not on the other computers. So I installed arabic on another computer and it worked. Do arabic need to be installed on the local computer for flash to show properly? If so, it´s kinda strange. For example html do not need that.

I would appreciate if someone could answer my question if arabic have to be installed or if there is another way for flash to show arabic.

Many thanks