Some special characters in passwords cause issues

[littlefeltfangs]

Using Windows 10 x64 (build 19045), R 4.3.1 (2023-06-16 ucrt) , and keyring_1.3.1
Run key_set("test")
Enter "Password£"

Returns:

input string 1 is invalid
Error in b_wincred_set(self, private, service, username, keyring, prompt) :
Aborted setting keyring key
In addition: Warning message:
In sub("\r?\n$", "", rawToChar(x)) : unable to translate 'Password

' to a wide string

Just "Password" works fine.

[gaborcsardi]

Thanks, probably a bug indeed.

[splendiduser]

Using the same Windows system, R 4.3.2, and keyring 1.3.2, I noticed that usernames which are email addresses are not passed unchanged to the Windows credential manager. The "@" character is turned into "%40". Is that possibly related or expected?

[Meghansaha]

Attempted to tackle this on 2025-09-19 for Tidy Dev Day. I unfortunately cannot reproduce this bug:

library(filelock)
key_set('test')

Password Input: Password£!@#$%^&*

key_get("test")
[1] "Password£!@#$%^&*"

Session Info:

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 22631)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

time zone: America/New_York
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets 
[6] methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] keyring_1.4.1.9000 testthat_3.2.3     devtools_2.4.5    
[4] usethis_3.2.1     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] miniUI_0.1.2      compiler_4.5.1    brio_1.1.5       
 [4] filelock_1.0.3    promises_1.3.3    Rcpp_1.1.0       
 [7] callr_3.7.6       later_1.4.4       yaml_2.3.10      
[10] fastmap_1.2.0     mime_0.13         R6_2.6.1         
[13] htmlwidgets_1.6.4 desc_1.4.3        profvis_0.4.0    
[16] rprojroot_2.1.1   shiny_1.11.1      rlang_1.1.6      
[19] cachem_1.1.0      httpuv_1.6.16     fs_1.6.6         
[22] pkgload_1.4.0     memoise_2.0.1     cli_3.6.5        
[25] withr_3.0.2       magrittr_2.0.4    ps_1.9.1         
[28] digest_0.6.37     processx_3.8.6    rstudioapi_0.17.1
[31] xtable_1.8-4      askpass_1.2.1     remotes_2.5.0    
[34] lifecycle_1.0.4   vctrs_0.6.5       glue_1.8.0       
[37] urlchecker_1.0.1  sessioninfo_1.2.3 pkgbuild_1.4.8   
[40] purrr_1.1.0       tools_4.5.1       ellipsis_0.3.2   
[43] htmltools_0.5.8.1