On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 18:40:06 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
 declaimed the following:

>space if its inside a string. However, I suspect its unlikely to work in
>windows because I suspect that merely treats "\=" in a user-name entry
>box as a backslash followed by a space.
>

 Worse -- it's a path separator... and likely invalid for that reason as
the username determines the home directory. And confusingly, Windows will
display the "realname" in some places instead of the logon/username.

 My desktop has an icon labeled "Dennis L Bieber" but that opens the
directory "C:\Users\Wulfraed"

>
>Another thought: Linux system and application programs tend to default
>characters in the range 0x80-0xff to UTF-8 encoding, but what encoding do
>Windows 10 system and application programs default characters in this
>range to?

 On Windows? Probably depends upon the language/keyboard preferences
combined with the application (Unicode-aware programs might be UTF-8, but
older applications would depend upon the code page associated with the
language/keyboard setting).


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