I’ve let our admins know about your ticket.

Worth trying butler while you wait on the ticket. It's itch's own command line uploader and it takes a completely different path from the browser upload, so a failure that happens right at the end of the progress bar is often just absent there.

butler push yourbuildfolder irog/return-from-the-tavern:windows

The reason it suits your case specifically is that butler uploads incrementally. It diffs against your last build and sends only the changed bytes, so a small fix in one of fifteen languages costs seconds rather than a full 10 MB round trip every time. We push every build this way and haven't used the browser uploader in months.

On your own theory, for what it's worth: there's no published monthly upload limit, and a quota would almost certainly reject you before the transfer rather than after it reached 100 percent.

That one has a nasty edge, because it isn't only the languages you'd expect that push you past 2 bytes.

Accented Latin sits in the 2 byte range, so French and Spanish look safe. But everything from U+0800 up takes 3 bytes, and that includes the punctuation a word processor inserts on its own. A curly apostrophe is U+2019, an em dash is U+2014, an ellipsis is U+2026. So a translator who wrote their file in Word can hand you 3 byte characters in a language that has none of its own, which is a horrible thing to debug because the language looks like it should be fine.

Cheap check before you touch the decoder: scan every translation file for any lead byte from 0xE0 up and print the character with the file it came from. If the only hits are punctuation nobody asked for, normalising those back to ASCII is far less work than widening the reader.