Fixed empty strings in powershell by using pwsh instead of powershell

README.md

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Also, while this library is in Python, it aims to be a reference implementation
 ## Known limitations
 
 * ASCII control codes are not supported. This notably includes `\t`, `\r` and `\n`. (There doest't seem to have proper ways to encode these characters in CMD nor Powershell anyway.)
-* Empty strings are not supported in Powershell. (It doesn't seem to be possible at all to pass an empty string as a command line argument in that *super well designed* language.)
 
 ## About non-ASCII characters
 

test_ressources/test_utils.py

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ def run_echoer_with_powershell_through_script(str):
             f.write(cmd_file_content)
 
         # perform the call
-        subprocess.check_call(["powershell", cmd_file_name], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+        subprocess.check_call(["pwsh", cmd_file_name], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL)
 
         # get the results
         with open(output_file_path, 'r', encoding="utf-8", newline='') as f:

test_win_cmd_escaper.py

@@ -105,12 +105,6 @@ def test_double_quotes(self):
         self._test_str('"\\\\')
         self._test_str('"\\\\\\')
 
-    def test_latin_1(self):
-        self._test_str('Aéèàù')
-
-    def test_emoji(self):
-        self._test_str('😊❤️😍😁👍')
-
 class CmdScriptTests(unittest.TestCase, AllTests):
 
     def escape(self, str):
@@ -119,7 +113,7 @@ def escape(self, str):
     def run_echoer(self, str):
         return test_utils.run_echoer_with_cmd_through_script(str)
 
-class CmdPythonSubprocessTests(unittest.TestCase, AllTests):
+class CmdDirectTests(unittest.TestCase, AllTests):
 
     def escape(self, str):
         return win_cmd_escaper.escape_cmd_argument_direct(str)
@@ -136,5 +130,8 @@ def escape(self, str):
     def run_echoer(self, str):
         return test_utils.run_echoer_with_powershell_through_script(str)
 
-    def test_empty(self):
-        self._test_unsupported("")
+    def test_latin_1(self):
+        self._test_str('Aéèàù')
+
+    def test_emoji(self):
+        self._test_str('😊❤️😍😁👍')

win_cmd_escaper.py

@@ -50,9 +50,7 @@ def escape_powershell_argument_script(str):
     """
     Escapes an argument for Powershell.
     """
-    if str == "":
-        raise ValueError("Empty strings are not supported")
-
+
     acc = ""
     for i in range(len(str)):
         c = str[i]