I post this, here, in the proper context, for completeness, as I came upon it in my research.
I have taken over support of iPlaylist Importer, with blessings from trixmoto, and am in process of implementing full unicode support in the upcoming iPlaylist Importer 1.7.
But, just in case somebody wants to take a different fork from 1.6, I wanted to share something I found, at:
http://blog.leafwood.net/2010/09/05/med ... mment-5931