fixed byte issues surrounding loadDB() & saveDB()
fixed many pycharm warnings & errors
added .gitignore
more stylistic fixes
more stylistic fixes
more encoding issues
fixed regression
fixed possibly undefined variable in decrypt()
formatting
formatting
removed vague todo message
the utf-8 check is already done in decrypt()
use the hexchat config dir as the path instead of the script path
removed some redundant code: windows python does have a threading module now; use os.path for path operations instead
fixed path issue