[FLEX-21762] Chinese text not displayed correctly with Spark components

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Previous
• Component/s: Spark: Button, Spark: FTETextField, Spark: General Component, Spark: Label, Spark: TextArea, Spark: TextInput
• Environment: Affected OS(s): Linux; Affected OS(s):
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 01/Nov/09 14:04
• Updated: 15/Apr/11 15:11
• Resolved: 02/Dec/09 16:07

Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a Spark component that displays text (i.e. a TextInput, Label, Button etc.)
2. Set the label to display some Chinese text
3. Run the app in flashplayer under Windows and Linux

Actual Results:
When run under Windows, the international text displays perfectly as expected. When run under Linux, blank squares are produced instead of Chinese text.

Expected Results:
When run under Linux, it should display the correct Chinese text instead of blank squares.

Workaround (if any):
Either embed a Chinese font (for example c:/WINDOWS/Fonts/simhei.ttf) (not much of a solution, increases compiled swf to several megabytes in size), or only use Halo components (which appear to display Chinese text perfectly on both platforms).

I've filed this as an SDK bug – please excuse me if this is incorrect. I figured because Halo components work fine while Spark do not, it's a problem with the SDK itself rather than Flash Player.

I've enclosed a sample app which exhibits the behaviour, although it's very straightforward to reproduce.

Thanks.