It's not that the database is in a weird format. It's that individual entries have multiple character encodings. The old perl CGI could handle that just fine, b

It's not that the database is in a weird format. It's that individual entries have multiple character encodings. The old perl CGI could handle that just fine, but trying to do anything with those files is a pain in the butt, which is why the site was offline in the first place. Ward was attempting to work with a static target instead of a moving target.