Passing special characters to swf so.addVariable won't work

Hi,

I have a few variables that I need to pass to Flash,

so.addVariable(“var4”,“créer”);

I read that I can do this by using this:
so.addVariable(“var4”,encode(“créer”));

but that won’t work either… the é gets replaced by FFFD instead.

Who can point me in the right direction please ?

grtz,
ToM.