This post is a tutorial about how to embed fonts in Flex. Enjoy it and you may also want to take a look at another text that gives a good base to this topic:
Different languages and fonts

Introduction

With Flex you can create an ActionScript class that serves only as a font repository. You can also set the unicode range choosing which character set you want, this way it isn’t necessary to embed the entire font and the size of the swf decreases.

This post is a tutorial about how to embed fonts in Flash. Enjoy it and you may also want to take a look at another text that gives a good base to this topic:

Different languages and fonts

The possibilities

To embed a font in Flash you can chose between adding only one character set into a specific text box or including an entire font in the library.

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When working in Flash/Flex with idioms that have characters others than those that exist in english you'll need to work a little more. Whatever it is, a so different idiom as japanese, with its three distinct alphabets,  or only to include accentuation in latin languages.

When you create a swf, Flash or Flex automatically embed the characters of your static text with the font you choose, increasing the size of your final file. However, when you use dynamic text (coming from database, XML, user's input or rotated and deformed text) the problem with alphabets appears.