On 24/07/2019 17:09, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 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?

I really wouldn't know.

>
>  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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