refactored SearchExpression

ParadoxSaveParser.Lib/ParadoxEncodings.cs

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+namespace ParadoxSaveParser.Lib;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Encodings used by Paradox save files.
+///     Touching this class registers the code page provider, so no consumer has to do it.
+/// </summary>
+public static class ParadoxEncodings
+{
+    /// <summary>Encoding of EU4 save files.</summary>
+    public static Encoding Windows1252 { get; }
+
+    static ParadoxEncodings()
+    {
+        // .NET ships only ASCII, Latin1 and the Unicode encodings; code pages come from this provider
+        Encoding.RegisterProvider(CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance);
+        // assigned here and not in an initializer, which would run before the provider is registered
+        Windows1252 = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);
+    }
+}