SendAndLoad with accented url

Question

Hi all,
I have a little flash application(cs4) to read xml files and to display the contents. xml files are being read using LoadVars::sendAndLoad() over http. It works fine unless I have an accented characater in the url. For example:
http://localhost/rss/news.xml  - works fine where as
http://localhost/rss/News_português.xml won't work.
Anybody ever faced this issue ? Any idea how to get around the problem ?
I appreciate your help.
Thanks
Faisal

Answer 1

Thanks, I tried URLLoader like you have advised, I am getting the following error messages:
1- The class or interface 'flash.net.URLRequest' could not be loaded
2- The class or interface 'flash.net.URLLoader' could not be loaded
I am using the first example in this url:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/OSMF/1.0/AS3LR/flash/net/URLLoader.html
import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.net.URLLoader;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
    import flash.xml.*;
    import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
class includes.clsUserFeeds extends MovieClip
public function ReadChannel(strFeed, bCheck)
        var request1:URLRequest = new URLRequest(strFeed);
        loader = new URLLoader();
        try
            loader.load(request1);
        catch (error:SecurityError)
            trace("A SecurityError has occurred.");
        loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, errorHandler);
        loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loaderCompleteHandler);
        xmlTextField.x = 10;
        xmlTextField.y = 10;
        xmlTextField.background = true;
        xmlTextField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
        addChild(xmlTextField);
    private function loaderCompleteHandler(event:Event):void {
                try {
                    externalXML = new XML(loader.data);
                    readNodes(externalXML);   
                } catch (e:TypeError) {
                    trace("Could not parse the XML file.");
        private function readNodes(node:XML):void {
                for each (var element:XML in node.elements())
                    trace(element.attributes()[0] + "\n");
                    readNodes(element);
        private function errorHandler(e:IOErrorEvent):void {
            trace("Had problem loading the XML File.");
Do I have to do anything specifically in project settings to use actionscript 3 ?