@M-Andre-Z-Eckenrode said in Intricacies of Regex Replace via Python Script:
Because 99.9% of the text I’m dealing with is adequately expressed in ANSI, and Unicode files are larger than ANSI. Granted, they’re just text files and not particularly large ones either way, but I’m a conservationist at heart and am compelled to avoid wasting space. :-)
I don’t think that is a compelling reason at all.
But, democracy rules, so do what you like. :-)
But, as this thread sort of shows, a complete understanding of encoding is an important thing.
For myself, I’m not 100% of the way there, but hopefully getting better all the time