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Cpp IntelliSense is not working with certain characters in the file path #1560

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Even though I set the path of MinGW like document says (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/cpp)
But autocompletion doesn't work at all.

    {
        "name": "Win32",
        "includePath": [
            "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/include/*",
            "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/atlmfc/include/*",
            "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Include/um",
            "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Include/shared",
            "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Include/winrt",
            "${workspaceRoot}"
        ],
        "defines": [
            "_DEBUG",
            "UNICODE"
        ],
        "intelliSenseMode": "msvc-x64",
        "browse": {
            "path": [
                "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/include/*",
                "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/atlmfc/include/*",
                "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Include/um",
                "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Include/shared",
                "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Include/winrt",
                "C:/MinGW/lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/include/c++",
                "${workspaceRoot}"
            ],
            "limitSymbolsToIncludedHeaders": true,
            "databaseFilename": ""
        }
    }

I checked the exact path of MinGW and it exists in that path.
Is it because of version of MinGW? Do I have to upgrade it to 6.3.0?

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