Windows installer fails if user profile directory name contains parenthesis

[BurtHarris]

Checklist

• [X] I added a descriptive title.
• [X] I searched through existing issues and couldn't find a solution or duplicate issue.
• [X] I searched on the web (e.g. Google) and didn't find any helpful information.
• [X] I searched the Anaconda documentation and didn't find any helpful information.

Impacted product

• [ ] A conda package (built by Anaconda)
• [X] Anaconda Distribution (formerly Anaconda Individual Edition)
• [ ] Miniconda
• [ ] Anaconda.org

What happened?

I have a user profile is stored in C:\users\Mayra(Kitty)... This has not caused problems installing other packages, e.g. Microsoft 365 But installing Anaconda3-2024.06-1-Windows-x86_64.exe fails with an error saying there is an invalid character in the path

Expected behavior or outcome

Installation successful.

Conda info

n/a (install failed)

Conda config

n/a (install failed)

Conda list

n/a (install failed)

Additional information

No response

[marcoesters]

Thanks @BurtHarris for the report! This is intended behavior because of the following issue: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/12587

So, our installers prohibit these characters in the path until the issue is fixed in conda.