[BUG] [WINDOWS] Special characters are not saved properly

[kishikaisei]

Describe the bug
The path for the sessions is not shown properly, functionally they work, but visually they are wrong:
C:/path/to/project is shown as C++%path%to%project (: -> ++, and / -> %)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Save any session on windows
2. Open "autosession search"

Expected behavior
A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.
To see the path correctly with the proper characters

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Baseline (please complete the following information):

• Windows 11 21H2
• Neovim version v0.8.0-dev+519-g6f6286e4f
• https://gitlab.com/kishikaisei/nvim

[rmagatti]

Hey @kishikaisei thanks for the issue submission! 🎉 I'd be happy to accept a PR if you or anyone's got some free time to dive into this. I don't really have the means to look deeper into Windows issues with this plugin unfortunately.

[nnako]

within Windows operating systems there are different restrictions concerning usable characters for valid file and folder names. to name a few obvious ones:

• no case-sensitivity for file names on windows systems
• no colons : within a file name. only to separate the drive identifier from the rest of the path
• no backslash \ within the file names as they are used to separate folders
• ...

thus, the replacement of : with ++ and \ with % at least renders the file names valid for session files. This is not very pretty (I would prefer a simple underscore _ for any of the invalid characters) but at least, windows doesn't get confused.

@kishikaisei : what would you like to see as a "solution", here?

If it was only about representing that session file name within the nvim editor when listing all available sessions, that should not be such a big problem for implementation,

[cameronr]

@rmagatti I think this can be closed now