Cyrillic characters from MySQL not displaying correctly

I have a flash file that has a dynamic text link which is taking the data from a MySQL database. Everything is fine when it is receiving standard characters, but when I try to use Cyrillic characters I just get ???? instead.
I've tried setting the collation to everything from windows 1251 to UTF8 (and variants). I've also tried setting the text link to fonts ranging from Arial to Arial CYR, Verdana etc and even embedding the char sets into the file.
Nothing seems to be working - does anyone have any ideas about what I can do?
Thanks!!

.oO(Daniel Sofer)
>I have a static site in Japanese that is working fine in
Dreamweaver. I'm
>trying to add a database connection with php/mysql, but
the connection between
>my page and the database is garbling the text (moji bake)
in both directions.
You also have to define the connection character set, so the
data will
be transfered correctly.
10.4. Connection Character Sets and Collations
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-connection.html
I do this by sending a
SET NAMES 'utf8'
to the database right after establishing the connection.
Additionally
your server has to send the correct charset parameter to the
browser.
In PHP you can achieve this with a header() call:
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
HTH
Micha

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