MAINT-8087: Use SHGetKnownFolderPath(), not SHGetSpecialFolderPath().
SHGetSpecialFolderPath() is deprecated, and empirically it appears to be failing when the user name contains non-ASCII characters. The relevant Microsoft documentation pages recommend calling SHGetKnownFolderPath() instead. Also, the SHGetSpecialFolderPath() calls had no error checking or reporting, which is why we can only say it "appears to be" failing. Make sure that if SHGetKnownFolderPath() fails, at least we try to tell somebody about it.
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