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And now it's \Users, presumably because after 20 years, Microsoft gave up? Only if you assume that people rarely have spaces in their Windows login names (e.g.
by alterom 2y ago
And now it's \Users, presumably because after 20 years, Microsoft gave up?
Only if you assume that people rarely have spaces in their Windows login names (e.g. "Joe Smith").
Either that, or Windows users have learned to not be scared of spaces in filenames, usernames, and their own literal names.
- numpad0 2y agoWindows set up with Microsoft Account uses abbreviated e-mail for user names, because UTF-8 breaks apps, including many East Asian apps. non-Western Windows users always knew never to use anything outside ASCII for usernames, passwords, or any programmatically used identifiers. It's English users that haven't learned it.
- alterom 2y agoSure, but space is an ASCII character.