This script is designed to take the hassle out of converting text files to UTF-8 encoding. With the prevalence of UTF-8 as a standard encoding for text files, ensuring compatibility across different ...

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I'd like to know if there was a specific reason behind forcing the encoding here, or if anything speaks against just leaving these settings away so that Python can detect and use the encoding of the ...

It looks like the exported file is utf-16 (at least that's what gives me legible results when I open it using that encoding), but apparently RegSetValueEx wants a utf-8 encoded string?