Kazakh keyboard input not works

Question

Hi.
I'm can't figure out trouble with kazakh(cyrillic) input to text controls in Flex4.
I'm embedded unicode fonts, and "Copy->Paste" kazakh text from notepad into flash app works fine!
But i need to keyboard input. In my case ordinar cyrillic letters inputs normal, but kazakh-specific
letters (located in keyboard's 1234 and 7890 keys) not works - ? symbol displays.
Please, anyone help me. I'm wasting 2 weeks in attempt to resolve it.
P.S: FlexSDK 4.0.0.12321, FP 10.0.42.34, OS Windows.

Answer 1

When you paste and it works, take the string and look at the charCodeAt() for each character in the string.
Then when you type, see if the keyDown event is reporting the same charCode or not.
Another test is to verify that your browser can allow those characters when typed into an HTML INPUT tag.
Hi!
When i'm pasting kazakh letters into textInput, flexApp shows correct charCodes, e.g.:
әіңғүұқөһ -> 1241 1110 1187 1171 1199 1201 1179 1257 1211
but when i'm typing this letters from keyboard, flex shows these charCodes:
?і??????? -> 63 1110 63 63 63 63 63 63 63
(cyrillic-kazakh letters located in place of 2,3,4,5,8,9,0,-,= symbols of keyboard, on simple click - lowercase, with ShiftKey - uppercase).
testing app code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
               xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
               xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600">
    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.controls.Alert;
            protected function richeditabletext1_keyDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void
            protected function rt1_keyUpHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void
                ttt.text = "";               
                for (var i:uint = 0; i<rt1.text.length; i++){
                    ttt.text = ttt.text+" "+ rt1.text.charCodeAt(i);
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>
    <fx:Style>
        @namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark";
        @namespace mx "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx";
        @font-face {
            src: url("arialuni.ttf"); /* Embed from file */
            fontFamily:"Thai_font";            
            /*unicodeRange:"Cyrillic";*/
            unicodeRange: U+0400-04F9;
            cff-hinting:none;
            embeddAsCFF:true;
        .test{
            font-family:Thai_font;
    </fx:Style>
    <s:TextInput id="ttt" width="100%" fontFamily="Arial Unicode MS"/>
    <s:TextInput id="rt1" x="562" y="243" text="RichEditableText" width="100%" height="500" enabled="true"
                        editable="true"  fontSize="18" keyDown="richeditabletext1_keyDownHandler(event)"
                        keyUp="rt1_keyUpHandler(event)"
                        direction="ltr"
                        styleName="test"/>
</s:Application>