maybe check endianness?

If you know that the data is UTF-8, then you just have to check the high bit: 0xxxxxxx = single-byte ASCII character 1xxxxxxx = part of multi-byt

this can be overridden in attachment readers to do more cleanup if needed

alter a version 214 database so it is compatiible enough with 215 to be imported into a 215 db as source */

for aes 256, the key and iv have set sizes (32 and 16 resp)

prints out a header containing current date and time