One, I want to thank you for writing this post. Although you didn’t find a solution, your description lead me to figure it out.

Here’s what’s up:

In a nutshell, this occurs when the embedded font(s) you’re using doesn’t have all the character ranges included when you publish it.

To fix:

- Select your embedded font in CS5.5
- Bring up the context menu and select “Properties…”
- Under “Character ranges:”, make sure “All” is checked

DARK MAGIC DEFEATED.

Nick

Char ‘d’ is displayed because it was present in original string – chars was embedded…

you should use embedd font with all needed chars included.

How it works in depth is mystery to mee. But i know there are people there on the internet who knows. They even understand difference between TTF and CFF (or how it is)…

Otherwise, let us marvel at the sophistication of spam bots.

http://www.capstrat.com/insights/blog/having-trouble-embedded-fonts-and-html-text-flash-cs5/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2770055/flash-cs5-screwed-up-all-my-textfields-how-can-i-correct-this

(I was googling with “CS5 AS3 TextField gibberish” and “CS5.5 textField broken” – if these are not the best ways to google this problem please let me know!)

My google-tracker just caught this, and since this is the closest thing to a life blog of the panel, I figured I would chime in (or maybe because you called me a “cool dude”, who’s to tell).

I agree that it was a panel that had didn’t stick well together. I think the best moderators that I’ve been moderated by did one thing in common, namely to tease out disagreement. A second best is to have people tell stories that are new or surprising, while everything else quickly sees the audience finally catch up on their email and tweeting… I’m afraid this was one of these.

As for the unasked question to me, it’s already happening but not the way you might expect. We haven’t (until Unity 3.0 hits this summer) attempted to compete with the 2-3 mainstream AAA engines for huge projects, but instead offered a superb solution for everything else: iPhone, web, Nintendo Wii, small or medium teams, non-game, products that target the huge audiences that own slow and/or crappy devices like old laptops or new netbooks.

That didn’t stop ambitious web based projects like Tiger Woods Online and Cartoon Network’s FusionFall from being developed on Unity (and several other awesome projects that have not or barely been announced), with stellar production values and teams of up to 50 people… it’s just not been our focus, and not necessary for us to be very successful either.

Anyway, I’ll see you at the next conference… or when I pass Oregon, whichever happens first :)

PS. I have a very high opinion of the other panelists all of whom I know as brilliant technology and business people. And having recently watched a lot of input devices attempt to enter the market, I actually think that, based on technology and partnership approach, Sixense has better odds than most. But it’s a tough space littered with failures, I grant you that :)