I've been dealing with some development work lately that surrounds Flash and languages such as Chinese and Japanese.

One thing I've had to think about and attempt to tackle is the fact that to embed chinese or japanese fonts. It means embedding a 5mb+ file into Flash.

Even if internet speed is being ramped up by the second, this is still a burden to your average user. It would most likely mean waiting around for 2 minutes or more just to get the fonts downloaded.

So what can be done about this?

We must have a solution one day.

At the moment scouring through the internet yields no result.

There are work-arounds. Like embedding all textual data as images, but it's not ideal, and it'll only work to some extent as images are still data intensive. In a site that contains a lot of textual data, this isn't going to work either.

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