UNICODE AND SECURITY FOR FLASH DESKTOP APPS

I'm presently in the development phase of some desktop applications using Adobe Flash to develop rich interactive apps that include games published in AIR for PCs. Given that I intend to commercialize these products, I have the following requests which you may be able to help provide answers to:
- how do I type texts in unicode characters given that my applications will include texts in my local language of yoruba.
- how best can I integrate security features into my application such that serial numbers or activation keys are required to run them? This is to help ensure that the apps run on per PC basis. This'll also help ensure timed licensing for users.
- how best can I obfuscate my swf files so that they are not easily decompiled or viewable by users in my program files or even by software which can expose the source codes? From experience, I have some AIR published desktop apps installed on my PC yet the swf files are viewable from the program files on my harddrive.
- how can I also protect my ActionScript files from being decompiled?

same problem with me sir , If you find answer kindly let me know and if i find the solution it will be my pleasure to share it with you !
Freind, I want to make a flash game ,
but it should not be a web based it is a desktop based application !
and the most important part of this is its security .
I want to do the following things
1)-I can copy this game on others pc , but it must be expired after 10 days .
2)-if someone copy it by any unethical way , it must not be opened on his pc a black screen should come
i have wathced a game like that .
I am confused how to make it ,it can be achieved by using flash or i have to make a separate desktop
application on C#.net or java that can hold this game and take care of security issues .
Thank you very much

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