Specialfolder.MyDocuments returns localized name for folder instead of actual folder name on windows.
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Description
### Description
When using Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments), the name of the documents folder is localized is sometimes returned, when the actual full path shold be what's returned.
### Reproduction Steps
1) have documents folder redirected to onedrive.
2) have multibyte characters in the localized name
3) use Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments) to fetch the path.
### Expected behavior
It should return the actual and correct full utf-16 path to MyDocuments specialfolder into the .net string, ready for use
### Actual behavior
Instead, you get the localized folder name from the desktop.ini present in the folder, and, at least if it's Cyrillic, the backslash before the folder name disappears.
### Regression?
It probably is a regression, but i have no idea when it started, so that doesnt' matter.
### Known Workarounds
Actually read the windows environment variables directly and fetch the real path that way.
### Configuration
.NET 9.0.10
Windows 11 x64
I believe this affects all version of windows that have the localized folder names feature.
### Other information
app showing the bug is here.
https://github.com/tsunamods-codes/7th-Heaven
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