Flex 4 Arabic

I am involved in creating Arabic site in Flex 4. I am using layout mirroring for flip the site in RTL direction. It is working perfectly and i am using two separate resource files for Arabic and English. The problem now is that, Arabic text is getting transposed. It is not displayed in correct direction as it is in the resource file and even this happens when paste some Arabic text in the application. Probably, this isssue has some answers elsewhere, if so please redirect me to that place

Hello, have you found a solution for this? I used to use Flary which worked well for flex 3, when I used it with 4, it didnt work.
Thanks

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Please find the attached image with this post.
Arabic words are not displaying completely/correctly. I have makred it with red line, you can see that in the attached image.
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Hello Robin,
Thanks for your example, but still problem is not solved.
I have attached image by the name Robin_Example.JPG of your example, you can also noticed (underlined in red color) that your example contains the same problem as I am having.
Here I am pasting the whole code and also sending my arabic text file (TopFirst.txt), for your reference so it will be easy for you to run the application:
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library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="
library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo" minWidth="
1024" minHeight="768"creationComplete="init()"
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flashx.textLayout.controls.*">
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text"/>
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import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
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