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Versions of VSCode after 1.101 cannot read userpath containing Chinese characters with the correct encoding on Windows #252761

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@HosamaJJF

Type: Bug

  1. create a user on Windows with Chinese characters in the username
  2. install VSCode version 1.101.0 or later
  3. open Integrated Terminal while terminal.integrated.inheritEnv is true
  4. input and run anything in powershell in the terminal and it will report permission denied when trying to write log to the default path
  5. you'll also find it unable to login Microsoft account in VSCode because of the same problem

I have temporarily solved these problems by :
C:\>mklink /j "C:\Users\my user name read by wrong encoding" "C:\Users\my username"
but the userpath powershell get from vscode is still wrong

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VS Code version: Code 1.101.2 (2901c5a, 2025-06-24T20:27:15.391Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
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