Special chars seem to not be handled correctly when installing packages

[kjo-sdds]

Brief description of your issue

The path that was added to the PATH env variable is wrong ("special" chars )

Steps to reproduce

1. Have a username (taken from the microsoft account ...) containing a "é" for example
2. winget install Schniz.fnm (for example ... but I've had this issue with other packages, like ffmpeg for instance so I assume problem might not lie in the packages themselves)
3. path gets added with "é" instead of "é"
   => commands are not found ...

Expected behavior

handle correctly an "é" !! It's 2024 !!!
(even though I usually avoid accentuated chars ... since it was automatically taken from my Microsoft account ... I didn't have a word ... )

Actual behavior

added with "é" instead of "é"

Environment

winget --info
Gestionnaire de package Windows v1.8.1911
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. Tous droits réservés.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22631.4037
Architecture du système : X64
Package : Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.23.1911.0

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[kjo-sdds]

Those issues link to a central issue :
"Should have been fixed in v0.2.2521"
=> Obviously not ...

[stephengillie]

This seems very similar to #3312. and might be a duplicate.

• The é character is mentioned in the first comment.

[denelon]

Duplicate of #3312

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