Agreed, nice find. Here are some perl scripts to do the transcoding (I called it asciilate.pl):

#!/usr/bin/perl -n
#enable 8th bit on ascii characters sent to stdin, output to stdout
foreach $c (split//,$_) {print chr(ord($c)+128)}

#!/usr/bin/perl
#as above, add content-type header to make it work...

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