Question on Data Driven Graphics (non-English)

I am trying Data Driven Graphics with Illustrator CS4 on Win.
The program works fine with English XML data, however when I try other non-English language, Illustrator cannot show characters like é,è,ë.
The data is in XML UTF-8 encoding.
Anyone could help?
Thanks,
Wallace428

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all the variables just fine, but after properly processing one
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or
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Incorrect parameter.
...Useful stuff huh? Here's the source if anyone wants to try
this and investigate the mystery of the crashing graphics wizard:
template:
http://www.freewebtown.com/PhireNexus/ImpRome/template.png
xml:
http://www.freewebtown.com/PhireNexus/ImpRome/cards.xml
We noticed that on the variable-pairing screen, there's an
extra blank variable (it just is blank, no name, but it does exist)
on the xml side. Otherwise, this whole thing is irregularity-free.
Very frustrating stuff.
-----edit-----
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