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The home manager script fails when $USER contains special characters.
For example, my work PC is managed by company's LDAP and username is <COMPANY>\<user>). When running home-manager switch I get the following error:
```
error: flake 'path:/home/<COMPANY>/<user>/.config/home-manager' does not provide attribute 'packages.x86_64-linux.homeConfigurations."<COMPANY>\<user>".activationPackage', 'legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.homeConfigurations."<COMPANY>\<user>".activationPackage' or 'homeConfigurations."<COMPANY>\<user>".activationPackage'
Did you mean <COMPANY><user>?
```
There are two types of strings that need escaping:
strings in Nix expressions (e.g. home.nix generated by home-manager init)
they need backslashes before special chars
flake URI (passed to nix build)
they need URI's percent encoding, luckily jq supports that
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