I got word that that other person I'm talking about (who helped Patchou too) is
TheSteve. He's another programming-über-wizard who eats bytes for breakfast.
He is also a member here and also on the Mess.be forums. He is still active, but he doesn't always read (random) threads. So, best is to contact him directly.
I did a search on the forums for UIB related stuff and here are some interesting posts about it:
ryxdp's reply to How to re-encode an UIB file?
TheBlasphemer's reply to A little fairie told me this...
(indeed confirms that it were TheBlasphemer and TheSteve working with Patchou to implement UIB encoding/decoding in Plus!)
And (blog post from
TheBlasphemer):
http://fw.hardijzer.nl/?p=10
And this might be of huge interest for you (post from TheSteve on the old MSNFanatic forums):
http://forums.fanatic.net.nz/index.php?showtopic=...08499&#entry108499
(though, the info might be out of date. But at least it's a start)
(thanks to pollolibredegrasa for digging this up)
PS: Your thread isn't [OT] though. Tech talk like this is right on topic in the 'Tech Talk' subforum 
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