Comment 9 for bug 1463943

There is an existing institution_config-level setting for encoding.

This may be the "global encoding option [...] that appears to do nothing" in comment #8 above.

It does indeed do something within OpenILS::SIP, and there's probably some conflict resolution to be done between the two approaches.

See commit 7bca4bf4070c06c810ed546e30a9bb5749776f28 in Evergreen for additional context:

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=commit;h=7bca4bf