# Using system fonts for Chinese/Japanese text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-system-fonts-for-chinese-japanese-text/309005>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 4, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-system-fonts-for-chinese-japanese-text/309005 "2010-05-04T21:34:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-system-fonts-for-chinese-japanese-text/309005/1 "2010-05-04T21:34:07Z")

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Hey all,

I’m working on a multi-lingual project and I need to display Chinese characters. I’m trying to avoid embedding the font library as that adds a lot to the size of the file.

I’ve tried using system fonts

fontFamily = “Arial Unicode MS, \_sans”;

Which works on most computers, but some simply don’t have ‘Arial Unicode MS’, and \_sans doesn’t seem to be filling in like I’d expect it to.

Is there a reliable way to use ANY system font on the users computer which is capable of displaying Chinese characters?

I’ve tried using:

```auto
        
private function findFont(testText:String):void {
var embeddedFonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(true);
for (var i:int = 0; i < embeddedFonts.length; i++) {
 var testFont:Font = embeddedFonts*;
 trace(testFont.fontName + ": " + testFont.hasGlyphs(testText));
}            
}

```

to see if I could find a font with the appropriate glyphs but this returns false across the board.

So anyone have any suggestions?