XML sheet in flash "dies" when odd characters appear

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Hi, i have a flash document which loads in data from an xml sheet…

when the characters æ, ø, å, ë or any other chars apart from standard US chars comes up, it terminates or dies…
The xml sheet works fine when i load it in firefox, so i suppose that the fault comes from some encoding problem inside flash?
Is there some function that i have to run the xml file through before printing them to convert them to UTF-8 or something?

Thanks in advance

Brian