Can't show a Wingdings star in Flash

Question

I have a textbox where there should be a 1 to 5 star classification for a movie, so I used the star symbol (character code 0xAB) from the Wingdings Symbol Font. But instead of the stars, What I get is double angular quotes in Arial, the corresponding character in a normal text font: «
In fact, every Wingding character above 0x80 (included) is displayed in Arial instead of Wingdings. This also seems to happen with all Symbol fonts.
I've also made Wingdings into a font symbol but the problem still happens. It also happens in static text boxes.
To reproduce the error just make a text box and set the font to Wingdings. Now type something and it shows in Wingdings but press ALT+0171 (or copy the star from the Character Map app) and instead of a star, you get double angular quotes.

Answer 1

kglad wrote:
creating a library item with your webdings font doesn't embed your font.  it's step1 in a multi-step process to embed your font.
if you'd completed the other steps correctly, you would have seen your webding font in your textfield.
Well, according to Adobe, it does:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flash/10.0_UsingFlash/WSd60f23110762d6b883b18f10cb1fe1af6-7d42 a.html#WSd60f23110762d6b883b18f10cb1fe1af6-7d2ca
Embed and share fonts
You
can embed a font in your SWF file so that the font does not need
to be present on the devices the SWF file eventually plays back
on. To embed a font, create a font library item.
Creating
a font library item also allows you to use the font as a shared
library item for sharing among multiple SWF files. You must also
assign the font item a linkage identifier string and a URL where
the document that contains the font symbol will be posted. In this
way, you can link to the font and use it in a Flash application. When you use font
symbols for dynamic or input text, embed the font outline information.
After
a font symbol in a Flash document has
an assigned identifier string and URL, use the font symbol in another Flash document by copying the font
symbol into the destination FLA file.
Create a font library item
Open the library to add a font symbol
to.
Select
New Font from the Library Panel menu.
Enter a name for the font item in the Name text field.
Select a font family from the Font menu or enter the
name of a font in the Font text field.
(Optional) Select a font style from the Style menu. If the selected font does not include a bold or italic
style, you can select the Faux Bold or Faux Italic checkboxes. Faux
Bold and Faux Italic styles are added to the Regular style by the
operating system. The faux styles may not look as good as fonts
that include a true bold or italic style.
(Optional) To embed the font information as bitmap data
rather than vector outline data, select the Bitmap Text option,
and enter a font size in the Size text field. (Bitmap fonts cannot
use anti-aliasing. You must choose Bitmap as the anti-aliasing option
in the Property inspector for text that uses this font.)
Note:  The Size setting applies only when you use the Bitmap
Text option.