Also, more information, in a Dired buffer, Emacs is unable to follow the link whereas the shell buffer is able to cd into it. See top line in snippet below.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- lrwxr-xr-x 1 21B 13 Jun 19:22 Unicode-12.1@ -> /i/space/Unicode-12.1 drwxr-xr-x@ 2 1.0K 13 Jun 19:34 Unicode_12.1/ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
