Using "LoadVariables" to establish a connection between the running Flash
program and a text file in the same folder works just as expected with no
problems. I am on a Windows machine and using the recipe from the fabulous help
system.

The problem - yes there IS a problem - arises when the text file contains
special Danish characters.

The odd part here is, that everything works fine from inside Falsh using "Test
Movie", but not when publishing the movie and launching from inside a browser
(both IE and Firefox).
The help system says, that data should be URL-encoded. Trying that (characters
%e6, %f8 and %e5) does not fix anything. The input is read, but the offending
character is gobbled up along with the two next characters, or the program
simply hangs.

Any suggestions?[

No i didn't do that in my first series of tries. Following your suggestion I
did that (embedding Latin I, that should contain all the necessary characters),
but it didn't do the trick. Actually it prevented my writing to a dynamic text
field intended to interact with the user.
Using English cahracters only it worked fine (with invisible text ;-) ).
Using Danish characters I got the same result: Not working properly.

Using the Danish characters from inside Flash to fill in text fields (static,
dynamic and input) normally works fine, so I am puzzled - still