diff -r 1aa54df37ae2 google/appengine/ext/bulkload/__init__.py
--- a/google/appengine/ext/bulkload/__init__.py	Mon Apr 21 11:16:01 2008 -0700
+++ b/google/appengine/ext/bulkload/__init__.py	Mon Apr 21 13:25:54 2008 -0700
@@ -348,9 +348,21 @@ class BulkLoad(webapp.RequestHandler):
     except KeyError:
       output.append('Error: no Loader defined for kind %s.' % kind)
       return (httplib.BAD_REQUEST, ''.join(output))
+    
+    def unicode_csv_reader(unicode_csv_data, dialect=csv.excel, **kwargs):
+        # csv.py doesn't do Unicode; encode temporarily as UTF-8:
+        csv_reader = csv.reader(utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data),
+                                dialect=dialect, **kwargs)
+        for row in csv_reader:
+            # decode UTF-8 back to Unicode, cell by cell:
+            yield [unicode(cell, 'utf-8') for cell in row]
+
+    def utf_8_encoder(unicode_csv_data):
+        for line in unicode_csv_data:
+            yield line.encode('utf-8')
 
     buffer = StringIO.StringIO(data)
-    reader = csv.reader(buffer, skipinitialspace=True)
+    reader = unicode_csv_reader(buffer, skipinitialspace=True)
     entities = []
 
     line_num = 1