Cyrillic encoding with getURL

Question

I am creating a swf for use on a Russian website.
I have search box that the customer enters their search term which I then concatenate to the URL string in the getURL method.
When i use western characters this work fine but when i use cyrillic characters it breaks.
Does anyone know a way round this?
Or a way to output the characters using UTF-8?
Code Below
on (release, keyPress "<Enter>")
     if (search_text != "" && search_text != " " && search_text !=  undefined)
        var newURL = "http://www.WEBADDRESS.com/variable="+search_text;
         getURL(newURL, "GET");
'search_text'  variable refers to input field.
Thanks
Matt

Answer 1

I try to do it like this:
this is how I put in in DB:
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
stmnt.setBinaryStream(10,in, (int) file.length());
StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer("cp1251");
and then I get in the servlet :
response.setContentType("text/plain");
request.setCharacterEncoding("cp1251");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\""+ "MyFile" + ".txt\"");
response.getOutputStream().write(File);
response.getOutputStream().flush();
BUT NOTHING HAPPENS !!!! This is a very big shit !!!!! Please,help,guys !!!