Can't render Hindi (Devangari) text.

Any idea why the old text class can render Devangari, but the FTE cannot, even when the font is embedded as follows?

package {

import flash.display.Sprite;

import flash.text.TextField;

import flashx.textLayout.container.ContainerController;

import flashx.textLayout.elements.ParagraphElement;

import flashx.textLayout.elements.SpanElement;

import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;

    import flash.text.Font;

    import flash.text.TextField;

public class DevnagriScriptTest extends Sprite

{

[Embed(source='DevanagariMT.ttf',fontName='_HindiFont',cff='true')]

public static var _HindiFont:Class;

public const FONT_NAME:String = '_HindiFont';

public function DevnagriScriptTest()

{

flash.text.Font.registerFont(_HindiFont);

var textFlow:TextFlow  = new TextFlow();

textFlow.paddingLeft="5";

textFlow.paddingRight = "5";

textFlow.paddingTop = "25";

var controller = new ContainerController(this, 300, 90);

textFlow.flowComposer.addController(controller);

var paragraph = new ParagraphElement();

paragraph.fontFamily = 'Arial';

paragraph.textAlign = 'center';

paragraph.paddingLeft='10';

paragraph.paddingTop ='30';

var _span= new SpanElement();

_span.color=0xFFFFFF;

_span.text = "This is the FTE Text Field?   تعليق من قبل < aracbic |  hindi > اुमने कुछ चीजें";

paragraph.addChild(_span);

textFlow.addChild(paragraph);

textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();

// Ofcourse this font works with the old TextField class.

var oldTextField:TextField = new TextField();

oldTextField.text = "This is an old text field.  कुछ चीजें जैसे की बीं्स्वी सदी के क";

oldTextField.height = 90;

oldTextField.width = 390;

oldTextField.multiline=true;

oldTextField.x = 30;

oldTextField.y = 100;

addChild(oldTextField);

}

}

}