Add non-Roman characters to PDEText

Hi everyone,
Is there a way other than PDETextAddGlyphs to add non-Roman text to a PDETextObject. I've been trying to get Arabic and Cyrillic characters added to a PDEText object by adding the glyphs with no success. I'll list the method here so maybe someone can tell me where I'm going wrong. Most of this is straight out of the PDETextAddGlyph snippet.
1. Create a PDEFont from a system font that supports the characters I need. I'm using Arial, since the character map has the characters I want. For example, I'm using a Cyrillic character with Unicode code 0434. Arial supports that character, so I embed or subset Arial, using the createUnicode flag.
2. Create all of the objects I need to make this work, like the graphics state, text matrix, and text state.
3. I used the createGlyphRun from the snippet exactly to create the glyph run.
4. Stuff the glyph run, text state, text matrix, graphics state into a PDEText object by using PDETextAddGlyphs. That's where the cloud of smoke comes in. This returns "Bad Parameter".
I use all of the parameters for the PDETextAdd method, and it works fine. That leads me back to the createGlyphRun method. I got that from Adobe's SDK and it should work. I'm little stuck and would really appreciate some help.
Joe

I haven't looked at that yet. I was researching earlier today how to change the encoding from WindowsAnsi to some other encoding, but which one and how I haven't figured out yet. I need something that can support as many characters as possible, since we are looking to support Arabic, Cyrillic, and Greek for right now, then branch to CJK later. That's a bit more cut and dried by the snippet. I guess I'll have to find an encoding to match for now If you have any suggestions, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
Joe

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