[🐛 Bug]: NoSuchDriverException under Windows if user home contains special characters

[ivy-lmu]

What happened?

Under Windows, it is possible that the user's home directory contains special characters such as ü, ä and ö etc..
With the user home C:\Users\DieLücke the following line of code in Java leads to NoSuchDriverException:
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

With C:\Users\hello the same code works fine.

How can we reproduce the issue?

https://github.com/ivy-lmu/webdriver

Relevant log output

C:\Users\DieLücke
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.remote.NoSuchDriverException: chromedriver at location C:\Users\DieL?¼cke\.cache\selenium\chromedriver\win64\122.0.6261.94\chromedriver.exe, does not exist
For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/errors/driver_location/
Build info: version: '4.18.1', revision: 'b1d3319b48'
System info: os.name: 'Windows Server 2022', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '17.0.10'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverFinder.getPath(DriverFinder.java:76)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverFinder.getPath(DriverFinder.java:33)
        at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.generateExecutor(ChromeDriver.java:99)
        at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:89)
        at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:84)
        at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:52)
        at com.example.Main.main(Main.java:9)

Operating System

Windows

Selenium version

Java 4.18.1

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome, Firefox

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

ChromeDriver, GeckoDriver

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

[github-actions]

@ivy-lmu, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[diemol]

@bonigarcia I thought this was fixed a while ago, do you know?

[bonigarcia]

Yes, it was reported in the .Net bindings: #11947

... and solved here: bfcda90

Perhaps it is happening also in the Java bindings.

[joerg1985]

The same change has been done for the java bindings.