[New-bugs-announce] [issue44540] venv: activate.bat fails for venv with special characters in PATH

[MB113]

New submission from MB113 <m.brockbernd at ziggo.nl>:

If your virtual env Scripts folder is in a path with a special character (for batch-scripts) it will give this error:  

The system cannot find the path specified.

In my case it was a '&' in my path.

Now I see that the fix from specifically this issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue36634 has caused my problems.

So in the end neither works.
set "VIRTUAL_ENV=__VENV_DIR__" doesn't work with quotes
set VIRTUAL_ENV=__VENV_DIR__  doesn't work with 'special chars' (&*)

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components: Library (Lib), Windows
messages: 396776
nosy: MB113, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: venv: activate.bat fails for venv with special characters in PATH
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.9

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