Get a Arabic text bold in a basic RichText control

Question

Maybe a very silly question, but I'm searching for a solution many days now and maybe someone had the same issue.
I have a basic Arabic text and put in a Flex RichText control with this line:
public override function set text( value:String ):void
     this.textFlow = TextFlowUtil.importFromString( value );
     // this.textFlow = TextConverter.importToFlow( value, TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT );
In a CSS file I tell the application to make all the text bold for this RichText control. And the strange thing that happens is that a "normal" english text appears bold and the arabic text stays the same as if the font-weight was set to normal.
Can someone please help me?

Answer 1

Nothing to do with CSS.
On windows I have AdobeArabic-Regular and AdobeArabic-Bold installed.
This markup gives me bold text.  I use the textLine.dump() method to see what font player has actually chosen.
<span fontFamily="Adobe Arabic" fontWeight="bold">
If I remove AdobeArabic-Bold and render the same markup FlashPlayer does a fallback looking for some appropriate bold font that has Arabic.  If it can't find it bold text is not rendered.
Hope that helps,
Richard