Come play along. I make getting Chinese characters from a PC Word doc to Mac FlashMX fun.

1. discover word doc on Mac doesn't display
2. fart around on Mac setting things up properly and discover it still doesn't work
3. get lots of KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED error crashes on the PC (because everybody knows that PCs are so easy to use and repair and will immediately know what to do when this happens)
4. 4 hours later open Word doc on PC
5. print - save as postscript file
6. over to the Mac
7. make PDF from ps file
8. open PDF
9. select text in PDF
10. change default language in OSX to GB(insert unknown symbols here) and switch text behaviours from Roman to GB(insert unknown symbols here) too
11. open Illustrator
12. paste text from PDF
13. change font to the font that seems to display the characters goodly
14. back to PC
15. get TrueType font used in original Word Doc
16. quit Illustrator load font into OSX
17. open Illustrator again change the one symbol that didn't convert properly the first time
18. convert type to outlines
19. export as SWF
20. open FlashMX
21. import SWF into document

Should be easier. Could be easier. But it wasn't. You might want this as a reference source on Chinese-Mac