Form compatability with Reader

I've created a dynamic XML form (*.PDF) and set the default compatability to Acrobat/Reader 8.0 in LiveCycle ES (v 8.2.1.3144.1....) and when I go to open it on a computer with 9.2 reader, I get a message indicating that it requires the Traditional Chinese Language Support package.  When I try to open it in 8.2 Reader, it just gives the standard message that I need a later version of the PDF viewer (note that this same message appears behind the Traditional Chinese Language Support Package dialog box when opening in 9.2).
I have gone through the document and don't see anything referring to fonts or anything else Chinese related.  My form properties indicate the form locate as English (USA).
Any ideas?

Thank you for going through all of that.  I had done the same thing over the weekend and found the same thing.  Just for anyone running into this problem down the road, here is what I did:
- Instead of directly importing the Word document into LiveCycle (that generated a master page for every page in the document which was undesireable although I'm not sure why) I used the Adobe PDF/Convert to Acrobat PDF option that gets added to Word when you install Acrobat Pro.  In that I had selected the option to embed the fonts and used the 6.0 compatibility option.
- When that was opened with the LiveCycle, the way I found the discrepency was by noticing that the font that was showing for each of the controls was "TimesNewRoman" (no spaces between the words) and any new controls that I put on the form where I wanted that same font showed as "Times New Roman" (spaces between words).
Again, many thanks for wading through that whole thing.  There are many things about the conversion which were undesireable, namely that any paragraph of static text got broken into the separate Text areas for each line, and where a given line had an embedded word or words that were bolded/italicized/underlined, the conversion turned that single Text area into 3 different ones...the first for the text leading up to the bold/italicized/underlined word(s), a second for the those word(s) and a third for the remaining text.  That is quite messy, however I'm not sure that creating a document of the length I had (12 pages) would any easier to create from scratch in LiveCycle.
Don't get me wrong...this is a really powerful tool, but it is a bit klugey to use for developing documents from scratch.

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