My demand for that too has slowed in the past couple years, mainly because it's getting easier to do more on the client. e.g. I don't need to upload an entire .

My demand for that too has slowed in the past couple years, mainly because it's getting easier to do more on the client. e.g. I don't need to upload an entire .docx file, if all my backend needs is ~50kB of values queried out of one of its contained .xml files. Not saying this is a _solution_ to any of the encoding questions, only that it's reduced my immediate need.