changing the language in Flash

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[bill]

I don't normally have Flash enabled on any of my browsers, but the local weather site has a really great Flash site that's incredibly handy. My problem is that the site is in Japanese, but on my English OS workstation a lot of the text comes out as gibberish. It looks like some of the text areas of their application just weren't encoded correctly.

Is there any way to change language or encoding in the Flash reader? I can't see any. Regardless of my browser's encoding settings (I tried in IE, FF, & Opera) the gibberish persists. The site looks fine on a Japanese OS. Any suggestions?

[Richard_N]

not in the flash reader, flash can be set to embed fonts and characters when the movie is compiled but as they probably have not embedded the font so its unlikely you can do much about it.

[bill]

That's unfortunate.

Does anyone know if the new Flash Reader v.8 has any functionality along this line?

[Richard_N]

i doubt it, effectively it would mean embedding characters and fonts directly into the player (?) which would increase its size exponentially

[bill]

I don't know all that much about Flash. With browsers and other software on an English language Windows OS I can see Japanese, Chinese and Korean in a number of different programs, including my browsers. Where is Flash getting this font/language information?