If you have Flash CS4 or Flex, you could embed just that one character from
that font using the [Embed] syntax. Check out this tutorial
http://gotoandlearn.com/play?id=102

Ktu

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:08 PM, confustic...@gmail.com <
confustic...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have paragraphs of text which includes phonemic symbols: pretty much
> any character found here should be included:
> http://www.e-lang.co.uk/mackichan/call/pron/type.html
>
> I thought I was home and hosed, as Lucida Sans Unicode / Lucida
> Grande, which seems pretty standard, covers all that.
>
> The problem came when I found out that I also have to be able to
> display the undertie character:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_(typography)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_%28typography%29>(HTML
>  code &#8255;)
>
> It seems that the only font on Windows that covers the undertie is
> Arial Unicode MS. Unfortunately, Arial Unicode MS doesn't seem to be a
> standard font.
>
> I don't want to have to embed Arial Unicode MS because that would
> really add to my file sizes, as well as restricting my ability to do
> things like textfield.htmlText = "<b>bold</b> text". It seems like
> such overkill for ONE SINGLE GLYPH.
>
> Would anyone be able to suggest any alternatives? ALL I WANT IS AN
> UNDERTIE ... *sob*
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