Is `Dir.pwd` broken in SU 2019.3 by Mac OS Catalina?

Interesting…
We tried creating a new folder to see if that would invoke a request to grant permission.

He reports the following 2 responses alternate, but no pop-up message:

> Dir.chdir("/Users/<username>/Documents/new_test_folder") do puts Dir.pwd end
Error: #<Errno::EPERM: Operation not permitted - getcwd>
<main>:in `pwd'
<main>:in `block in <main>'
<main>:in `chdir'
<main>:in `<main>'
SketchUp:1:in `eval'

> Dir.chdir("/Users/<username>/Documents/new_test_folder") do puts Dir.pwd end
Error: #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - getcwd>
<main>:in `chdir'
<main>:in `<main>'
SketchUp:1:in `eval'

but if he uses the Dutch folder path name for that same new folder, only this variant occurs:

> Dir.chdir("/gebruikers/<username>/Documenten/new_test_folder") do puts Dir.pwd end
Error: #<Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - getcwd>
<main>:in `chdir'
<main>:in `<main>'
SketchUp:1:in `eval' 

I wonder if the Dutch localisation is also throwing another variable into the mix… does anybody know how the file path localisation is working in Catalina, is the Dutch an alias to the English original or the other way around…?
Unfortunately I don’t have access to the machine in question so can’t look ‘under the hood’.