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feat: add config option for special character handling (#795)

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#### Unset current credentials
Sometimes, existing credentials in your runner can get in the way of the intended outcome, and the recommended solution is to include another step in your workflow which unsets the environment variables set by this action. Now if you set the `unset-current-credentials` input to `true`, the workaround is made eaiser
#### Special characters in AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
Some edge cases are unable to properly parse an `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` if it
contains special characters. For more information, please see the
[AWS CLI documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-troubleshooting.html#tshoot-signature-does-not-match).
If you set the `special-characters-workaround` option, this action will
continually retry fetching credentials until we get one that does not have
special characters. This option overrides the `disable-retry` and
`retry-max-attempts` options.
## OIDC
We recommend using [GitHub's OIDC provider](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/security-hardening-your-deployments/configuring-openid-connect-in-amazon-web-services) to get short-lived AWS credentials needed for your actions. When using OIDC, this action will create a JWT unique to the workflow run, and it will use this JWT to assume the role. For this action to create the JWT, it is required for your workflow to have the `id-token: write` permission: