Michael Bolin faab4d39e1 fix: preserve platform-specific core shell env vars (#16707)
## Why

We were seeing failures in the following tests as part of trying to get
all the tests running under Bazel on Windows in CI
(https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/16528):

```
suite::shell_command::unicode_output::with_login
suite::shell_command::unicode_output::without_login
```

Certainly `PATHEXT` should have been included in the extra `CORE_VARS`
list, so we fix that up here, but also take things a step further for
now by forcibly ensuring it is set on Windows in the return value of
`create_env()`. Once we get the Windows Bazel build working reliably
(i.e., after #16528 is merged), we should come back to this and confirm
we can remove the special case in `create_env()`.

## What

- Split core env inheritance into `COMMON_CORE_VARS` plus
platform-specific allowlists for Windows and Unix in
[`exec_env.rs`](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/1b55c88fbf585b32cd553cb9d02ec817f2ad6ebc/codex-rs/core/src/exec_env.rs#L45-L81).
- Preserve `PATHEXT`, `USERNAME`, and `USERPROFILE` on Windows, and
`HOME` / locale vars on Unix.
- Backfill a default `PATHEXT` in `create_env()` on Windows if the
parent env does not provide one, so child process launch still works in
stripped-down Bazel environments.
- Extend the Windows exec-env test to assert mixed-case `PathExt`
survives case-insensitive core filtering, and document why the
shell-command Unicode test goes through a child process.

## Verification

- `cargo test -p codex-core exec_env::tests`
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