I'm about to freak out! // French accents

Has anyone had this problem before and been able to get it working:

I’m on a MAC - trying to load an external text file into flash which contains french accents. THEY WORK LOCALLY on my computer when I test it, BUT NOT ONLINE. Online the accents like “é” will appear as “©”, and other accented characters will appear as other symbols or just not appear at all.

I have read and tried everything that all the tutorials and even macromedia say, and it still does not work…

  • the txt file is saved as UTF-8
  • the text field is set to html, as well as the actionscript (htmltext =)
  • I have specified the character glyphs for the dynamic text box
  • I tried using “System.useCodepage = false;”

What am i missing?? Thanks in advance…