# Displaying extended unicode Characters with .fla embedded fonts

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-extended-unicode-characters-with-fla-embedded-fonts/286850>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 21, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-extended-unicode-characters-with-fla-embedded-fonts/286850 "2009-04-21T23:14:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![dmeans08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b782af/32.png) [@dmeans08](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dmeans08)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-extended-unicode-characters-with-fla-embedded-fonts/286850/1 "2009-04-21T23:14:01Z")

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My issue is thus:  
If I use an embedded unicode font in a textfield and set embedFonts = true when displaying characters like mandarin or IPA phonetic spelling characters, certain characters will disapear from the textfield.

```auto
 
var font:Font = new UnicodeFont() as Font;
var fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
fmt.font = font.fontName;
 
var embedded:TextField = new TextField();
embedded.y = 45;
embedded.x = 250;
embedded.embedFonts = true;
embedded.defaultTextFormat = fmt;
embedded.text = displayString; //phonetic spelling of the word "action" but mysteriosly missing some characters
addChild( embedded );

```

The code above results in missing characters. Setting .embedFonts = false does not.  
I have attached a demo .fla cs3 file to better demonstrate the issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated on this.