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[Meta] PSES should handle unusual path characters properly

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by reviewing Workspace.cs and the linked reports for crashes involving # and . in paths. Reproduce the reported path-character cases and trace the affected PSES behavior; done means PSES handles both unusual characters without crashing, with regression coverage if the relevant test location is identified.

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Description

Area-Workspaces Issue-Bug

There are a few open issues that look like PSES is crashing when it comes across a strange character.

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C#
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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