windows: prevent bytes from being passed to registry APIs
There was a TortoiseHg bug report in this area[1], and from inspection, it looks
like passing `b""` as `valname` would fail to convert to unicode. The
underlying API allows both `""` and `NULL` to return the default value for the
key.
[1] https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg/thg/-/issues/5803
{
// Enforcing
"eqeqeq" : true, // true: Require triple equals (===) for comparison
"forin" : true, // true: Require filtering for..in loops with obj.hasOwnProperty()
"freeze" : true, // true: prohibits overwriting prototypes of native objects such as Array, Date etc.
"nonbsp" : true, // true: Prohibit "non-breaking whitespace" characters.
"undef" : true, // true: Require all non-global variables to be declared (prevents global leaks)
// Environments
"browser" : true // Web Browser (window, document, etc)
}