FDF in Unicode

Hello everyone,
I am using Acrobat 9 Pro on Windows 7 and having a problem so hoping someone can please help.
To create a PDF form I generate the data FDF file from our database application. Then import this file to its matching PDF form in Acrobat 9 Pro. In the FDF file we use some characters such as € Stréèt € (Euro signs and French characters) and they appear properly when this FDF file is viewed with Nodepad. However, these characters don't appear properly in the PDF form when the FDF file is imported.
The font we use on form fields is Time Roman but I have tried different fonts but didn't yield any improvements.
Please let me know if you know of a solution or something that I am not doing correctly.
Many thanks.

FDF files must follow the format specified in the PDF specification. This does NOT permit UTF-8 (the specification is older than UTF-8). You won't be able to just edit this in a text editor.
The strings in an FDF map directly into the font's encoding. We have to hope this matches characters 1-127 in ANSI, but the others are questionable. You seem to have been lucky with the accents, but you wouldn't have been so lucky on a Mac, nor possibly even with a PDF made on a Mac.
For a specific PDF the character codes exported will be fixed, so you can test all the extended characters, then examine the FDF in a binary editor to see how they import. The Euro character may well be represented as something you can't see in a text editor. The result will certainly be invalid UTF-8.
Probably a much better bet is to use XFDF, which is UTF-8 by definition.

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