OK, well it seems the only way to keep control of the text in the captions is to Anglicize the names, and eliminate the non-standard characters, so this is what I'll do.
Makes me wonder what the rest of the World (non-English speakers) do when they caption or use PM?
Generally they would have to choose an encoding like Mac Central European or Microsoft Central Europe. Or they can use XMP which supports all languages.
-Kirk