I’ve been doing some experiments trying to use Japanese characters in Adobe Air applications. There doesn’t seem to be much written on this subject so far. I’ve discovered that it is possible to input in Japanese in both Windows and Linux (using SCIM), but that it is program specific and depends on the fonts that have been selected in the application. Unlike Java which has a system of switching to a different font when a character is not found in the default set, Air will not continue if it cannot render the character in the selected font.
Some applications seem to have implemented a work around by having an international font that can be selected in the settings. TweetDeck is a great example of this. You can turn on the international font and then SCIM works fine. See below:
So basically, at the moment, until Adobe improve the Air system, it looks like the suggested way of getting east Asian characters to work in Adobe Air is to contact the developer and ask them to implement an international font. I imaging the prospect of their software also working in China, Japan and Korea would probably be enough for most to do this.
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