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Korean fonts incorrectly display Chinese characters in Flash 8

Issue

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When using Korean fonts in Macromedia Flash 8, some fonts display Chinese characters as lower quality than Korean characters.

The following steps illustrate this issue :

1. Select the Text tool in the Tools panel.
2. In the property inspector set the font type to GungSuh (Korean font type).
3. Type in Chinese characters.
4. Repeat 1-2.
5. Type in Korean characters.

The result when testing the movie is that Flash 8 displays lower quality chinese characters when compared to the Korean characters. However, what you'd expect to happen is that Flash 8 would display both character sets (Chinese and Korean) with the same quality, since they use the same font type.

Reason

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The Chinese and Korean characters in the GungSuh font are actually different thicknesses, with the Chinese characters being thinner. This affects their display when set to anti-alias.

Ref. (126451).

Solution

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Use a Chinese font for Chinese text.

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