Flex app with bidirectional languages

I saw a posting from Adobe that Flash does not support
bidirectional languages -
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=a767a478
Does it mean that I cannot create a Flex application
displaying and inputting bidirectional langauges such as Arabic?
If so, any idea when Adobe will have bidi support in Flash?
Daisy

http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/now_this_is_awesome_flash_news/
Adobe's product manager had just promised today that "the
next major release of the Flash Player (Flash Player 10?) will
support bi-directional text"
http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/now_this_is_awesome_flash_news/

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