Creating multilanguage text overview

As more applications are distributed to worldwide audiences, it is becoming common to author applications that can be displayed in multiple languages. Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 provide several new features that greatly enhance the work flow for authoring multiple language Unicode-based applications. You can include multilanguage text in your document in various ways:

Other, less common, methods of including multilingual text in your movie include the following:

As is true for all text, for Unicode-encoded text to be displayed correctly, users must have access to fonts containing the glyphs (characters) used in that text. See Using external text or XML files that are not Unicode encoded.