special characters such as an ampersand in the password of the service account for the Universal Agent get lost

Current Situation

If you type special characters such as

• &
• <
• >

in the password of the Universal Agent Service account then these character get lost during the installation and you get

Failed to start JobScheduler Agent(...) service.

Desired Behavior

Above special characters don't get lost.

Workaround

Type a caret (^) before the above special characters