Re: Upgrading to UTF-8

> km> it takes a very long time before support is no longer required -
> km> people still want to be able to read old email or news messages.
>
> I'm a little confused by this line of reasoning.  We're talking about
> wire formats, not storage formats, aren't we?  What has reading old
> anything got to do with protocols?
on most systems, the wire format and the storage format are essentially the
same.  (modulo line-ending differences).