Embedded glyphs for alpha not working for non-Latin letters

Question

Even after reading through all the posts here, I'm still
confused about why embedding is necessary for alphas on text and
how embedding works, so maybe someone can sort it out and help me
with my problem:
I have a FLA that is trying to present the same script in
(the user's choice of) several languages -- including non-Latin
alphabets like Korean, Japanese, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. I'm
using the Strings library to load translations into my text movie
clips on the stage.
The language stuff works great except that alpha tweens
weren't working. So I selected the movie clip symbols (three of
them) in the library and told Flash to embed all glpyhs. Each of
these symbols is using Trebuchet MS, so my thinking is that I'm not
exceeding the 65K limit because I'm embedding the same glyphs for
each. (But I'm not sure if that limit is for the SWF or per
symbol.) I only have one other font in the FLA and for that one,
I'm just embedding English alpha characters.
(Perhaps as an aside, I also included these fonts Stone Sans
and Trebuchet MS as fonts in my library, but I don't understand
whether this is absolutely necessary or if embedding glyphs
eliminates the need for these.)
So with those glyphs embedded, my text alpha tweens work
beautifully. However -- and this is where I begin to shed tears --
all the Korean and Cyrillic text is gone. It's just punctuation and
no characters. I don't have Chinese, Japanese or Arabic text loaded
yet, but I imagine that these would suffer from the same problem.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need to create more than one
movie to achieve my multilanguage goal? (Or worse, render each
language separately? -- yuck!) In my old version of Flash (just
up'd to CS3) I could tween alpha text with no problem, so why is
all this embedding even necessary?
Thanks,
Tim

Answer 1

Is this just impossible? Or really hard?