Flex 3 - Full unicode support fonts and CSS

Question

Hi!

I'm developping a web application that will be used either in Europe or in Asia (specially Japan -Hiragana, Kanji and Katana-, China and Korea).

I'm using the following fonts: - ericssonga628.TTF - HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt.otf - HelveticaNeueLTStd-LtEx.otf - HelveticaNeueLTStd-Bd.otf - HelveticaNeueLTStd-BdEx.otf

When I tried to display Japanese characters, I don't get anything. I guess these fonts don't support East Asian characters... Do you know of any equivalent fonts?

Also, I was thinking of creating a CSS for each language (or pack of languages) when the user changes the display language. For example, if the user selects "japanese", I'll use the japanese stylesheet. However, how do I switch from a CSS to another?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Regards,

Answer 1

I might be wrong on this, but my guess is that these fonts simply do not contain the characters and symbols you need. I worked a bit on an application that had Indian and Chinese characters in them and it worked just fine.

You can load style SWFs using the StyleManager class. There's some good info up on Adobe Docs about that.