>>10 That's honestly a pretty good point, and it does make the originally planned transition to UTF-8 a bit harder to do. I should note that the original World2ch from 2003 used UTF-8 for its encoding, and actually had a statement (in japanese) about it too (archived here http://world2ch.net/guide/2ch.html ), although RIR6 also had an AA option, so I'm not completely sure either way on what to do currently.