Document dotenv 16 quoting rule for .env values

A production password containing '#' was truncated after the dotenv 8 -> 16 bump (unquoted '#' now starts a comment), causing MariaDB access denied. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-05 16:11:50 +02:00
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+# Values containing #, ", \ or surrounding spaces must be single-quoted
+# (dotenv 16 treats an unquoted # as a comment): DB_PASSWORD='abc#def'
 PORT=3000

 DB_HOST=