Flash CS5, custom SWC without inlining TLF textLayout? (adds 125KB)

Question

I have a set of custom UI elements that are used in a number of activities, and want these maintained separately but linked into the activity on compile.  Basically an external library that can be linked to by all activities.  My understanding is that a SWC is the correct way to implement this.
I have created a bare-bones example of this duplication problem, download here.  The following description is based on this example.
The "shared.fla" has a library symbol with a linkage id (which is actulaly just a TLF Textfield).  Compiled to SWF this is 52KB (all of which is flashx.textlayout.* TLF actionscript bytes) + 153KB textLayout_*.swz.  Compiled to SWC this is 397KB.
The "activity_link_swc.fla" displays this shared library symbol on the stage, and links to the "shared.swc".  This creates a 179KB swf file.  This filesize is the same if the Runtime Shared Library Settings default linkage is either "RSL" or "Merged Into Code" - obviously the inclusion of my "shared.swc" automatically inlines the textLayout code.
If instead of linking to the SWC I just copy all of the SWC's library contents into the activity, of course this gives a SWF size the same as the "shared.fla" - 52KB + external textLayout.swz - 127KB smaller (assuming the swz file will be cached locally, and that's the whole point of SWZ files).
Is there any way to get this to work?  Having a compile time shared library of assets, without incurring a penalty for touching the mess that is TLF?

Answer 1

I would if we could - but we need support for unicode characters.  Our primary language is Nepali using the Devanagari script, which is not supported by Classic Text (the written language is all about complex ligatures - often up to five multibyte characters are rendered as one).