Hi!
I don't know if this is a Flash issue or what, but I can't seem to get carons to display (they display on frontend like they're missin characters) in my translation of the imagevue. I created my translation file and translated everything OK, even when I open XML file with a code editor everything is encoded OK. Yes, I do use utf-8. If you wonder what carons are, they are a kind of inverted little roofs over letters c, s and z. This is for Slovene language, but other languages have some extras like over r in czech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron
You can check out the example at my site http://mali.visoko.si and maybe go to image and hover the download and zoom in button which they appear se pretoi and pribliaj BUT they were supposed to be like pretoÄÂ