after playing around with loading chinese text from external .txt files i came to find out that i could simply copy and paste chinese text from a word doc directly onto the stage in flash mx 2004 professional. the only thing that i had to make sure of that the font selected in flash was either _sans, or _serif.
so last night i changed a script on the navigation (and this had absolutely nothing to do with the fonts) and now the chinese characters are not loading on other machines. i could embed the characters but the glyphs increase the file size by 500megs, and i didnt do any embedding before. all i did was copy and paste. this seems very strange and it’s driving me crazy that all of a sudden nothing is showing up. anyone out there know what’s going on?
by the way, i found a great way to load russian text using a free application called Unipad. you simply copy and paste the russian text into Unipad and then from unipad “copy as” the appropriate file format (Windows-CP-1251) and then you can paste the foreign characters into flash. with russian you have to make sure in flash that your font is set to “arial cyr” and all will show. =]
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j3hu
