Allow all characters in runfile source and target paths

Adds support for spaces and newlines in source and target paths of runfiles symlinks to `build-runfiles` as well as to the Bash, C++, and Java runfiles libraries (the Python runfiles library has moved out of the repo).

If a symlink has spaces or newlines in its source path, it is prefixed with a space in the manifest and spaces, newlines, and backslashes in the source path are escaped with `\s`, `\n`, and `\b` respectively. This scheme has been chosen as it has the following properties:
1. There is no change to the format of manifest lines for entries whose source and target paths don't contain a space. This ensures compatibility with existing runfiles libraries.
2. There is even no change to the format of manifest lines for entries whose target path contains spaces but whose source path does not. These manifests previously failed in `build-runfiles`, but were usable on Windows and supported by the official runfiles libraries. This also ensures that the initialization snippet for the Bash runfiles library doesn't need to change, even when used on Unix with a space in the output base path.
3. The scheme is fully reversible and only depends on the source path, which gives runfiles libraries a choice between reversing the escaping when parsing the manifest (C++, Java) or applying the escaping when searching the manifest (Bash).

Fixes #4327

RELNOTES: Bazel now supports all characters in the rlocation and target paths of runfiles and can be run from workspaces with a space in their full path.

Closes #23331.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 683362776
Change-Id: I1eb79217dcd53cef0089d62a7ba477b1d8f52c21
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tree: 5aa09319574e0e8df0e4cfa7b295efe050089586
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  8. tools/
  9. .bazelrc
  10. .bazelversion
  11. .gitattributes
  12. .gitignore
  13. AUTHORS
  14. bazel_downloader.cfg
  15. BUILD
  16. CHANGELOG.md
  17. CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  18. CODEOWNERS
  19. combine_distfiles.py
  20. combine_distfiles_to_tar.sh
  21. compile.sh
  22. CONTRIBUTING.md
  23. CONTRIBUTORS
  24. distdir.bzl
  25. extensions.bzl
  26. LICENSE
  27. maven_install.json
  28. MODULE.bazel
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  30. rbe_extension.bzl
  31. README.md
  32. repositories.bzl
  33. requirements.txt
  34. SECURITY.md
  35. workspace_deps.bzl
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